"Why is nostalgia such a bad thing? Nostalgia is a longing to return. If you really loved where you came from, if, in essence, you really loved yourself, how can you not want that to exist? It's like wanting your parents keep living."

-- Melissa Holbrook Pierson

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“Iâ€™m not super-comfortable with it. I feel the less you project of yourself the more you can be believable as a character. I also think itâ€™s just better for your own mental health. Then you can be a human being and change your mind and nobody asks you questions about it!”
“My look is either very baroque or very Zen â€“ everything in between makes me itch.”
“Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his weak brain giddy.”
“The thing that makes [Bob] Kennedy so good is that he doesn't have a fear of losing. He was willing to go to Europe and get hammered.”
“I believe that you have to treat the people who work with you like your family.”
“I'm like the opposite of one of those comedians who's funny on stage and depressed behind closed doors . On record, I can get pretty dark, but in real life I'm very carefree. But when I'm happy, I ain't writing songs, I'm out having a laugh, being in love. I wouldn't have the time. If I ever get married, it'll be 'Darling, I need a divorce, it's been three years, I've got a record to write!'”
“Nietzsche's vision of the superman is of someone who's able to control and tame his passions and turn them into something richer than raw emotion and raw feeling. I think the best writing does that too. Untamed passion basically results in bad writing or bad polemics, which so many writers and public intellectuals are vulnerable to.”
“Feeding a child at school is such a simple thing - but it works miracles.”

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