"You can't send a girl in to do what a lady can do."

-- Rachel

“Much of America is now in need of an equivalent of Mrs. Thatcher's privatization program in 1980s Britain, or post-Soviet Eastern Europe's economic liberalization in the early Nineties. It's hard to close down government bodies, but it should be possible to sell them off. And a side benefit to outsourcing the Bureau of Government Agencies and the Agency of Government Bureaus is that you'd also be privatizing public-sector unions, which are the biggest and most direct assault on freedom, civic integrity, and fiscal solvency.”
“In my entire life I never set out to do anything ground-breaking or pioneering, and I'm not going to start anytime soon.”

Source : "Dead Child". Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. April 22, 2008.
“I call architecture frozen music.”
“I don't want to wait more than a year and a half or two years between books.”
“Normal fear protects us; abnormal fear paralyses us. Normal fear motivates us to improve our individual and collective welfare; abnormal fear constantly poisons and distorts our inner lives. Our problem is not to be rid of fear but, rather to harness and master it.”
“Adrenaline kicks you in when youâ€™re starving. Thatâ€™s what nobody understands. Except for being hungry and cold, most of the time I feel like I can do anything. It gives me superhuman powers of smell and hearing. I can see what people are thinking, stay two steps ahead of them. I do enough homework to stay off the radar. Every night I climb thousands of steps into the sky to make me so exhausted that when I fall into bed, I donâ€™t notice Cassie. Then suddenly itâ€™s morning and I leap on the hamster wheel and it starts all over again.”
“Publishers never tell writers anything. They're all crazy and they drive me crazy.”
“I am influenced by words and the chewiness of language”

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