"I wrote a thirty-second song that I couldn't finish for a year."

-- John Flansburgh

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“We've had numerous people diagnosed with Alzheimer's who got better; they just come out of it; they are leading normal lives today. And then, of course, what the doctors say is it's not Alzheimer's. You run into that Catch-22 all the time. They say, well, it was probably just a temporary premature dementia, and they write-off the recovery to preserve their ignorance.”
“I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a man who goes around with a little oil can and when he sees a breakdown, offers his help. To me, the man who does that is greater than any holy man in saffron-colored robes. The mechanic with the oil can: that is my ideal in life.”
“Our thoughts, or in other words, our state of mind, is ever at work 'fixing up' things good or bad in advance.”
“In a couple of Ahdaf Soueif's novels, she gets at the certain kind of English that's being spoken by Egyptians. It's a beautiful, expressive English but it is non-standard, "broken" English that happens to be efficient, eloquent, and communicates perfectly well even if it is breaking rules.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“You know, it's hard as a writer to lose characters (and actors) you like. You really don't want them to die because you're not going to get to see them anymore.”

Source : "The Worst Day Ever". Interview with James Surowiecki, www.slate.com. January 17, 2006.
“My dad was a fairy," said Zach. "And by that I don't mean he dressed well and enjoyed musical theatre.”
“Given the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.”

Source : "Obama Spokesman Says 'Obama Ready to RULE on Day 1'" by Warner Todd Huston, www.newsbusters.org. November 10, 2008.
“I was supposed to be a professional rollerblader!”

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