"I do a lot of referendums. They can't talk back. They don't have wives. They don't have friends who tell you how to run the campaign. They are supported by special interests, so there's a lot of money in them."

“If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.”

“Folks never understand the folks they hate.”

Source : James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.523, Delphi Classics

“You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”

Source : Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.22, Anchor

“Music is part of Number Theory. Nowadays when a number-theorist applies for a grant, he says that it is good for security, but in those days, way before America, he would say that it's good for music. I will not comment whether we have progressed...”

“Exercising gives me endorphins and energy. I do it four days a week.”

“From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.”

“When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans.”

“Sadly, at Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler sales continually trend downward, manufacturing costs rise, and employment declines. As the result of the decrease in the number of cars produced by American manufacturers, membership in the United Auto Workers has dropped from a high of over 1.5 million thirty years ago to less than half a million today.”

Source : Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. 2008.