"I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed."

-- Barry Hannah

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“If a man has not, by the time he is thirty, yielded to the fascination of every form of extremismâ€”I don't know whether he is to be admired or scorned, regarded as a saint or a corpse.”
“Whatever a man thinks about sex, you can be sure that he thinks about sex almost constantly.”

Source : Joyce Brothers (1985). “What Evry Wom Know Men”, Ballantine Books
“I think we're rapidly approaching the day where medical science can keep people alive in hospitals, hooked up to tubes and things, far beyond when any kind of quality of life is left at all.”
“Cliff Stearns talks about what he did to Planned Parenthood, making Solyndra a household name - why didn't he do this sooner? Why didn't he see it coming? It's the oversight committee, not the hindsight committee.”

Source : "Upset winner isn't horsing around" by Kate Nocera, www.politico.com. August 26, 2012.
“Unlike prose writing, the strange process of writing with pictures encourages associations and recollections to accumulate literally in front of your eyes; people, places, and events appear out of nowhere. Doors open into rooms remembered from childhood, faces form into dead relatives, and distant loves appear, almost magically, on the page- all deceptively manageable, visceral, the combinations sometimes even revelatory.”
“If love was easy, there would be almost no music.”
“We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?”
“People say I am mad. I am not mad. I am trying to heal my soul.”

Source : "Alejandro Jodorowsky: 'I am not mad. I am trying to heal my soul'". Interview With Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2013.

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