"I write the book for one person â€” for Fiona [Staples, the artist]. I spend a lot of time just thinking how she'll react to things and manipulating her into drawing perverse, horrific things. It's a really weird job but I enjoy it."

-- Brian K. Vaughan

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“Firmness in all aspects is a most important quality when gardening, not only in planting but in pruning, dividing and tying up. Plants are like babies, they know when an amateur is handling them.”

Source : Margery Fish (2011). “We Made a Garden”, p.39, Pavilion Books
“It is important to note that research has shown that men who have abusive mothers do not tend to develop especially negative attitudes toward females, but men who have abusive fathers do; the disrespect that abusive men show their female partners and their daughters is often absorbed by their sons. So while a small number of abusive men do hate women, the great majority exhibit a more subtle-though often quite pervasive-sense of superiority or contempt toward females, and some don't show any obvious signs of problems with women at all until they are in a serious relationship.”
“I would love to direct some day. It's a good job for a control freak.”
“... it is better to study how to live rather than how to die; ... it is better to have a religion of deeds rather than a religion of creeds; ... it is better to work for humanity than for God.”

Source : Voltairine de Cleyre (2012). “Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius”, p.181, SUNY Press
“If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.”
“Isaac Asimov is, in reality, based on something I had invented a few years previously.”
“We journalists are never so idiotic as when we analyze things that we shouldn't be analyzing.”

Source : "'Primary Colors' Author Joe Klein Talks About Political Truth and Fiction". "Crossfire" with Mary Matalin, Bill Press, www.cnn.com. May 2, 2000.
“Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.”

Source : "What a piece of work is man!: Camp's unfamiliar quotations from 2000 B.C. to the present", (p. 320), 1989.

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