"Kids are all computer-savvy. Sit down and write to your parents on the computer. And just say, I have some questions and I'm scared. There's some stuff I don't know and I really need to talk to you about sex. Tear it off and put it on their pillow. They'll read it."

-- Sue Johanson

#Sex Quotes #Kids Quotes #Writing Quotes

“It matters less to venerate things than to live with them on terms of good friendship.”

Source : Adrienne Monnier (1976). “The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier”, p.185, U of Nebraska Press
“A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.”
“I live a very normal regimented life that focuses on my training and my private life so I squeeze the insane stuff in around that.”
“I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as â€˜The Massesâ€™. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.”
“Something I'll always remember - when I was a kid, I shook hands with Orville Wright. Forty years later, I shook hands with Neil Armstrong. The guy that invented the airplane and the guy that walked on the moon. In a lifetime, that's kinda wild when you think about it.”
“If you're not living on the edge you're taking up too much space.”
“In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.”
“Was there ever a war where only one side bled?”

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