"Teach a child how to think, not what to think."

“There was certainly a dishonesty there that I think is totally regrettable and inexcusable. The ringleading, the bullying: not totally true.”

“What made Manhattan Manhattan was the underground infrastructure, that engineering marvel.”

“Remember when you were eleven years old and you thought how great it would be to get your period? And then you got it? That's what planning a wedding is like.”

Source : Mimi Pond (1993). “A Groom of One's Own: And Other Bridal Accessories”, Plume Books

“It was so much fun to do, play the blues and then play a Monkees set on the same night.”

“i am the wind. one day, i will fly free”

“The only way of enduring one disaster after the next is to love the very idea of disaster: if we succeed, there are no further surprises, we are superior to whatever occurs, we are invincible victims.”

“I don't read music, which is a shame, actually, and I shouldn't even speak of it because it's embarrassing, but it's true.”

Source : "Sweetheart Of The Sun & Modern Art : Chatting With The Bangles’ Susanna Hoffs and Matthew Sweet". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 26, 2011.

“I play around with my Japanese Garden. Since Im half way to 70 today I need to start pruning trees and sharpening plants like an old fart.”