"The hedges are spruting like chicks from the eggs when they are newly hatched or as the vulgar says clacked."

“Amid the welter of vague political abstractions ... where meanings shift so quickly and so subtly, not only following changes of thought, but often manipulated artificially by political practitioners so as to obscure, expand, or distort ... a certain broad consistency in its relations to other kindred terms is the nearest approach to definition which such a term as Imperialism admits. Nationalism, internationalism, colonialism, its three closest congeners, are equally elusive, equally shifty, and the changeful overlapping of all four demands the closest vigilance.”

“I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.”

“Prayer is the inheritance we receive and the legacy we leave.”

“Much of the writing I do about the female body is to remind women, myself included, that they make life and they make death. That strikes me as a far more powerful stance than the weak lies told about mothering.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“I'm used to explaining to people why my jokes were funny.”

Source : Interview with John DeBellis, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 28, 2009.

“Live Free or Die Hard may work better for an audience that doesn't know much about the series is than it will for Die Hard die hards, who will be wondering who that impersonator is and what he did with the real John McClane. The original Die Hard came out of nowhere to blitz the 1988 summer box office. The fourth installment arrives with a weight of expectations that Atlas would have trouble shouldering and, when the dust settles in September, it's unlikely that Live Free or Die Hard will be one of this year's big success stories.”

Source : "Live Free or Die Hard (United States, 2007)". Movie Review, www.reelviews.net.

“The most ordinary things are to philosophy a source of insoluble puzzles. With infinite ingenuity it constructs a concept of space or time and then finds it absolutely impossible that there be objects in this space or that processes occur during this time . . . the source of this kind of logic lies in excessive confidence in the so-called laws of thought.”

“There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.”