"And it's the wonders I'm after, even if I have to bleed for them."

--

Catherynne M. Valente

“We wander through old streets, and pause before the age stricken houses; and, strange to say, the magic past lights them up.”
“Anybody can find out if he is a writer. If he were a writer, when he tried to write of some particular day, he would find in the effort that he could recall exactly how the light fell and how the temperature felt, and all the quality of it. Most people cannot do it. If they can do it, they may never be successful in a pecuniary sense, but that ability is at the bottom of writing, I am sure.”
“The faith that stands on authority is not faith.”
“I'm a big believer in education, period.”
“Politics is not really my thing.”
“If you can measure success in this business based on happiness alone I feel like I've hit the lottery.”
“I don't want to judge anyone's sex life - but I worry that those are the only options we are giving to our young people.”
“My sense was that most of the elected officials in Washington - in their heart of hearts - really believe that the system can't be too bad because it produced them.”

Source : "The Voice of Voting Reform". Interview with Tim Dickinson, www.rollingstone.com. June 6, 2006.

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