The condom has saved so many lives and it'll save so many more lives. We really owe a great deal to the rubber tree.
There's always time to read. Don't trust a writer who doesn't read. It's like eating food prepared by a cook who doesn't eat.
There's a serendipity to real life that the Internet can't duplicate. Do you use the library? For anything? Well, sometimes you end up picking up the book next to the one you were looking for, and it's that book that changes your life.
Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.
Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.
I'm a morning person, which is a hideous thing to be. No one likes morning people, not even other morning people.
There was nothing more dangerous than people convinced of their own good intentions.
. . . The simple little words came easily, fitting themselves to the tune that had come out of the harpsichord. It didn't seem to her that she made them up at all. It seemed to her that they flew in from the rose-garden, through the open window, like a lot of butterflies, poised themselves on the point of her pen, and fell off it on to the paper.
I just wanted to do my own thing after The Murderdolls. The Murderdolls were so spread out all across the US that we couldn't just say, "Let's go rehearse. " For us we had like four days to rehearse because everyone had to book flights, so we just never got as tight as most bands should be.
I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, but I was an art student and I was drawing a lot as a kid.
Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.