"If a humanist or an atheist or an agnostic says, "We'll bake you a pie," we can go right into the kitchen and bake it, and you can eat it an hour later. We don't promise you a pie in the sky by and by. It's charlatanry to promise people something that no one can be sure will ever be delivered. But it's even worse to offer people a reward, like children, for being good, and to threaten them with punishment if they're not."

-- Madalyn Murray O'Hair

#Atheist Quotes #Children Quotes #Pie Quotes

“I very much looked up to Janet Evans and Summer Sanders.”
“I tend to view the superstitions or fragments of myth as triggers for lyric inquiry. I also find I think of this kind of language as ars poetica - if we can find the right combination of words, we can make something improbably or extraordinary happen.”

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“There's no way I can compete with someone who can write rap or rock and roll. Nor do I wish to. But I've always kept up to date with music changes. I worked very hard not to type myself.”
“Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's part of any endeavour, not just writing.”
“When I'm in good form there are chances that rivals will worry more about you more than you about them.”
“I write every day. Writing is a necessity - like eating.”
“Walter Mondale has all the charisma of a speed bump.”
“Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.”

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