"In music the present is extended."

“Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do you'll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.”

Source : Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.33, Agate Digital

“He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.”

“Part of doing Linux was that I had to communicate a lot more instead of just being a geek in front of a computer.”

“I don't think I get the respect as a singer. With this record, I wanted to bring respect to my band.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“There is no power on earth that can undo Pakistan.”

“Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they'll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears.”

“I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.”

“In real life, I knew that fandom was made up of women, and women of color, and women of all ages. But on the publishing side of comics, it was a lot of white, straight men. It was often jarring to me to be the only women at a meeting or at a panel at a comic-con. Fortunately I had mentors who were not blinded by my gender and who said, "Yes, we know you can write these books." That hasn't been the case for everyone. What gives me great hope is that in the eight to nine years since I've started, I've seen tremendous growth.”

Source : Source: www.omnivoracious.com