"I used to eat burgers and steak, and I would just be knocked out afterward; I had to give it up."

“Even though it's still the United States, I think on many levels they feel separate, especially the true Hawaiians - who are not necessarily thrilled to be a part of the United States. But I just love the whole spirit.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

“There are only two answers for the handling of people from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale, neither one of which has anything to do with reasoning with them or listening to their justification of their acts. The first is to raise them on the Tone Scale by un-enturbulating some of their theta by any one of the three valid processes. The other is to dispose of them quietly and without sorrow.”

“That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.”

“I have very strong Canadian connections. My daughter was born there a year and half ago. But because of the nature of my job, I need to be in countries where I can get the stories that I am looking at.”

“Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood.”

Source : "How My Mind Writes Poems" by Robert Pinsky, bigthink.com.

“The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing, which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being.”

“No other natural bodily function is painful and childbirth should not be an exception”

“The switch to wi-fi came on so fast that it's everywhere now. It's really affecting things and I have a feeling that we're going to find out a lot more about what it's actually doing in a few years. I've had friends who are really sensitive to those kinds of frequencies and they are really affected by it.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.