"In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia."

“As a fiscal conservative, I think that our government should pay for itself.”

“That experience showed me that I-from moment to moment-am the only person in control of my connection to God. It's not that God is deciding to connect with me, depending on whether I had a good day, or did good or bad deeds. It's all up to me. God, the awareness of God, the love of God, the blessings of God-that lively ecstasy-is always there. It's me who separates from God by judging, by indulging in negativity, by criticizing myself, as well as others.”

“With the Internet, we can choose the very communities we want to be a part of.”

Source : Alex Shakar (2009). “The Savage Girl”, p.24, Harper Collins

“I feel connected to every song on this record [ 'Modern Vampires Of The City' ], but yeah I think there's something special about 'Young Lion'. It's pretty different from any song that we've had before because the vocals are kind of between two different very simple instrumental piano melodies and it's almost like something that we call a vignette, it's sort of like a miniature.”

“Vampire. Dangerous. Unknowable. Seriously creepy. This one's name was Constantine. We'd met before.”

“Skateboarding is not a hobby. And it is not a sport. Skateboarding is a way of learning how to redefine the world around you. For most people, when they saw a swimming pool, they thought, ‘Let's take a swim.' But I thought, ‘Let's ride it.' When they saw the curb or a street, they would think about driving on it. I would think about the texture. I slowly developed the ability to look at the world through totally different means.”

“I feel like I'm part of a generation of people who are stuck in the past and are really self-absorbed. I mean, we're actually taking pictures of ourselves and posting them on Facebook, and keeping in touch with people that should have been out of our lives 15 years ago.”

Source : "Diablo Cody Explores The Ugly Side Of Pretty In 'Young Adult'". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. December 16, 2011.

“A world is in flames, and you are cracking silly jokes.”