"All I ask of food is that it doesn't harm me."

-- Michael Palin

“Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
“I think where I've instinctively found myself is that I am somewhat guarded in my public life. Being interviewed or being photographed or just in public attention, I have a certain reserve. But when I'm working I feel like I'm very open. At least I like to believe that I feel like nothing is held back when I'm in front of a camera. That's my job.”
“Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He did it better.”
“Driving around with a receding hairline and two kids in a Prius feels a bit boring for me.”
“In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.”
“Let's have an honest conversation about what's going on. A man and a man at a bar looks like mentoring. A man and a woman at a bar looks like dating.”
“Well!' said Puddleglum, rubbing his hands. 'This is just what I needed. If these chaps don't teach me to take a serious view of life, I don't know what will.”
“The second you stop questioning yourself is the second that you become the monster. -Merry”

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