"Pop music, across its countless iterations, is a vast, amazing, thrilling art form. All life is in it. It stands for itself. The same is true of literature, but nobody feels compelled to toss Philip Roth a grammy just to prove it."

“A lot of people tell me, once they get to know me, that they're surprised that I'm nothing like they think I'll be.”

“That Monica who's just gonna sit there in mediocrity... That Monica died in Samoa”

“It is not as easy to emigrate with steel mills as it is with the manuscript of a novel.”

“I start out making my paintings for me. I don't see it as a form of communication. Until, of course, after they are done and I want people to see them. And want them to be recognized. But while I am making them I just try to get lost in them. Kind of like it's a prayer.”

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“I auditioned for 'Cats' - I didn't sing but I was able to cough up a hairball.”

“The first thing a fascist regime does is burn books. To not have them around would mean to make sure they're not written in the first place.”

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“No man can well doubt the propriety of placing a president of the United States under the most solemn obligations to preserve, protect, and defend the constitution.”

Source : Joseph Story (1833). “Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution”, p.339

“To attain individual morality in an age demanding social morality, to pride one's self on the results of personal effort when the time demands social adjustment, is utterly to fail to apprehend the situation.”