"Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet."

“Rather than thinking of sound and sense in my essays as two opposing principles, two perpendicular trajectories, as they are often considered in conversations around translation, or even as two disassociated phenomena that can be brought together to collaborate with more or less success, I think of sound as sense. Sound has its own meaning, and it's one of the many non-semantic dimensions of meaning in language. I want to emphasize is the formal dynamic between language-as-information and language-as-art-material.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“The SA is, and remains, Germany's destiny.”

Source : Ernst Rohm's SA summer furlough decree, "Völkischer Beobachter", June 10, 1934.

“All the posters on the walls All the leaflets in the streets Are mutilated, destroyed or run in rain, Their words blotted out with tears, Skins peeling from their bodies In the victorious hurricane.”

“Let us be very gentle with our neighbors' failings, and forgive our friends their debts as we hope ourselves to be forgiven.”

“There is definitely something sexy about a girl with an attitude and a pair of leather pants.”

Source : "Katie Cassidy Interview - HARPER'S ISLAND". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. April 11, 2009.

“Gandhi once declared that it was his wife who unwittingly taught him the effectiveness of nonviolence. Who better than women should know that battles can be won without resort to physical strength? Who better than we should know all the power that resides in noncooperation?”

Source : Barbara Deming (1984). “We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader”

“I work in a medium where I get to be totally invisible and I get great pleasure from that, being a pretty self-conscious person.”

“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”