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“If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our hard-earned control of ourselves.”
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“It is not as mirrors reflect us but, rather, as our dreams do, that movies most truly reveal the times. If the dreams we have been dreaming provide a sad picture of us, it should be remembered that - like that first book of Dante's Comedy - they show forth only one region of the psyche. Through them we can read with a peculiar accuracy the fears and confusions that assail us - we can read, in caricature, the Hell in which we are bound. But we cannot read the best hopes of the time.”
Source : Barbara Deming (1984). “We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader”
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“You had only one chance for a signature in life, but most people left no impression.”
Source : Meg Wolitzer (2013). “The Interestings”, p.281, Random House
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“A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.”
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“Disney World has acquired by now something of the air of a national shrine. American parents who don't take their children there sense obscurely that they have failed in some fundamental way, like Muslims who never made it to Mecca.”
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“When it becomes serious, you have to lie.”
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“Aphorism, n.: A concise, clever statement you don’t think of until too late.”
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“It's disingenuous and wrong to say that the attorney general's expanded powers in the Patriot Act come with adequate oversight by the courts, ... In reality, the most troubling provisions in the law make judges little more than rubber stamps in Justice Department investigations.”
Source : "Ashcroft: Patriot Act respects rights, improves security", www.cnn.com. September 11, 2003. 
