"Children, for whom suburban life was supposed to make wholesome little Johns and Wendys, became the acid-dropping, classroom-burning hippies of the 1960s."

-- Ronald Steel

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“Keep looking at me,â€ she said, laughing as though we were having an amusing conversation. â€œHeâ€™s staring at you. And I mean staring. That boy is undressing you with his eyes. Can you feel it?â€ Her expression was triumphant. Could I feel his stare? I can now, thanks, I thought.”
“A lot times you have your frame very much in mind and you're waiting for things to fall in place.”
“There's no way I can compete with someone who can write rap or rock and roll. Nor do I wish to. But I've always kept up to date with music changes. I worked very hard not to type myself.”
“When I'm following what a character does in a book I don't have to think about my own life. Where I am. Why I'm here. My moms and my brother and my old man. I can just think about the character's life and try and figure out what's gonna happen. Plus when you're in a group home you pretty much can't go anywhere, right? But when you read books you almost feel like you're out there in the world. Like you're going on this adventure right with the main character. At least, that's the way I do it. It's actually not that bad. Even if it is mad nerdy.”
“I think readers nowadays are happy to have genres blurred. We're seeing that on screen too: The Pirates of the Caribbean mashes up history and fantasy, Cowboys and Aliens mixes the Western and the Science Fiction genres.”

Source : Source: emunderwood.com
“I love X-Games music.”
“I hope I'm remembered as the king of the world, the noble man who united all the nations of the earth. But that probably won't happen.”

Source : Macaulay Culkin (2006). “Junior”, Miramax Books
“... the modern state masks itself in moral ideologies which obscure its actual conduct. One of the most compelling and insidious of these ideologies is the doctrine of natural rights. It was to secure these rights that the modern state was invented in the first place, and it is impossible, especially for Americans, not to be seduced by the doctrine. But it is nonetheless a philosophical superstition.”

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