"It [humor] inhabits the marginal."

-- Penelope Gilliatt

“It is hard sometimes to see how other actors are working when you are working with them.”
“Una's face was an unbroken block of calculation, saving where, upon her upper lip, a little down of hair fluttered. Yet it gave one an uncanny feeling. It made one think of a tassel on a hammer.”
“Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it.”
“Shawn Carter is nice, but Sean Price is the best.”

Source : "Sean Price, Rest In Power" by Sheldon Pearce, August 11, 2015.
“I usually enter the studio with a mix of songs that I've been listening to that are relevant to the sound I want to achieve.”
“First tweet, best tweet, I always think. I try not to work them too much or else they get Pie Dough Disease, which is where the dough has been to too much college and doesn't understand that it is dough anymore and refuses to be shaped. Pie Dough Disease! Poems get that too.”

Source : Source: logger.believermag.com
“Sometimes you have to travel back in time, skirting the obstacles, in order to love someone.”

Source : Frances Mayes (2014). “Under Magnolia: A Southern Memoir”, p.245, Broadway Books
“The British bombing of Caen beginning on D-Day in particular was stupid, counter-productive and above all very close to a war crime.”

Source : "Antony Beevor says D-Day bombing 'close to a war crime'" by Jamie Doward, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2009.

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