"Art is not just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be."

“There's great value to knitting or digging up your garden or chopping up vegetables for soup, because you're taking some time away from turning the pages, answering your emails, talking to people on the phone, and you're letting your brain process whatever is stuck up in there.”

Source : "What I've Learned: Representative Chellie Pingree (D, Maine)" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 26, 2010.

“You can wear them with anything. It's the person and the way that they wear it that makes it different. I have been designing white shirts forever, but I don't get tired of it.”

“I'm the best there is at what I do but what I do best isn't very nice”

Source : Interview with Olga Privman, reviewfix.com. September 1, 2009.

“All things except reason and order are possible with a mob.”

“Great sermon helped me to reflect on scape goats, forgiveness, revenge and the messiness of community. .. where I referenced this sermon. Thanks! Keep preaching the damn Gospel!”

“If Wenger had strengthened in the window, Arsenal could have been stronger”

“When I'm writing, I write. And then it's as if the muse is convinced that I'm serious and says, 'Okay. Okay. I'll come.'”

“Life is too short for mean anxieties.”