"Don't get me wrong, I have the utmost respect for anyone who has the nerve to even attempt to do music today, but this is just about what excites me."

“For years we've been playing and writing songs that sound happy. And yet if you listen, the words are all like "My brains are falling out of my ears; would someone please pull me together?"”

“I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot.”

Source : "A Little Learning" by Jeffrey Goldberg, www.newyorker.com. May 9, 2005.

“The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.”

“The free market allowed shock jocks to flourish, and millions of listeners apparently enjoyed the rant.”

Source : "Long Time Coming: Why Rush Limbaugh Must Go" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 6, 2012.

“I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan - it was a graduation requirement.”

“There are so many times in my life when I wish I had the power to destroy anyone who would threaten or seek to humiliate the people I love. When you were a small, shy, awkward kid like me, and you saw and experienced some of the things I did and you can do nothing, you're going to gravitate to those comic books and fantasies where the nerd gets bit by a radioactive spider and can beat up the bad guys.”

“Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.”

“Still, I look down, and the grass is so green, I cannot understand how it does not wither and die with sorrow. ~Song of the Sparrow”