"Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours."

-- Susan Sontag

#Exercise Quotes #Literature Quotes #Ability Quotes

“Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards.”
“I think its time to get a reapportionment process that frankly takes out the incumbency protection and the raw politics of the process.”
“I like working late at night and then going into the house and sitting down and watching a movie and then going to sleep.”
“At the gym; I've given up trying to get in really good shape, and re-committed myself to not getting any worse.”
“Some writers find that they don't know their themes until they've finished the first draft (I am one). They then rewrite with an eye toward balancing on that tightrope: not too contrived, not too rambling; does what I'm saying about the world below me actually add up to anything? Other writers pay attention to these things as they write the first draft. Either way, an awareness of the macro and micro levels of theme can provide one more tool for thinking about what you should write, and how.”
“Becoming a father made me a lot more sentimental than I ever was before. I never cried at movies before I became a parent. I feel music more intensely. I think of my political ideas as ideas about how I want to interact with other human beings as opposed to abstract theories about how the world should be.”
“I didn't have a sweet tooth, but I liked butter, and I liked sauces, and I liked wine and curry and cheeses.”
“We don't have any real justice in the legal system, you never see a headline that reads, Millionaire Gets Death Sentence.”

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