"The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish."

-- Terry Southern

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“I wondered why I hadn't loved that day more, why I hadn't savored every bit of it...why I hadn't known how good it was to live so normally, so everyday. But you only know that, I suppose, after it's not normal and every day any longer.”
“When you expand the definition of marriage beyond one man and one woman, society can expect other consenting adults in other configurations to say that their choices deserve recognition.”

Source : "This Holiday Ain't Big Enough for the Both of Us". Interview with Emily Yoffe, www.slate.com. May 13, 2013.
“I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.”
“I write about moments, and I don't make blanket statements about anything because no one has all the answers; nobody's come up with a foolproof way to do anything when it comes to emotions.”
“We don't live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means, and that is what life is for.”
“As a kid, image played a huge part. I'm sure most kids find the image of the guitarist exciting.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“For this, to be sure, from the child's primer down to the last newspaper, every theater and every movie house, every advertising pillar and every billboard, must be pressed into the service of this one great mission, until the timorous prayer of our present parlor patriots: 'Lord, make us free!' is transformed in the brain of the smallest boy into the burning plea: Almighty God, bless our arms when the time comes; be just as thou hast always been; judge now whether we be deserving of freedom; Lord, bless our battle!”
“A concert is a concert is a concert is a concert. An album is an album is an album is an album. Musically, both have nothing in common.”

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