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“No. Now, shut up and eat your pears.”
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“I think it's always important to put your own spin and bring your essence to whatever character you play.”
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“A book is a book only when it is read; otherwise it is a bundle of gathered sheets of soiled paper.”
Source : Frederick Philip Grove, Paul Hjartarson (1986). “A stranger to my time: essays by and about Frederick Philip Grove”
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“I feel comfortable with what I do and I guess that my girlfriend feels the same.”
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“In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear.”
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“Socrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought.”
Source : Mark Kingwell (2000). “The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age”, p.159, Rowman & Littlefield
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“I would be lying if I told you that I hadn't had aspirations to run for a statewide office.”
Source : "All In" with Chris Hayes, www.nbcnews.com. June 26, 2013.
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“We're certainly not perfect, and we're not probably even better than anybody else, except that perhaps we are given to certain kinds of contemplation that provide a valuable balance to the knee-jerk reactionary behavior of most of our newspapers and political leaders. Poets are great doubters.”
Source : Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.