It's funny. People often compare me to other humor essayists. They're usually quite nice comparisons I will accept those gladly. But I am always sort of appalled at the idea of being lumped with other, more chick-y female writers. And the truth is probably that neither comparison is accurate.

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.

Jimi Hendrix

I spent most of my high school years on movie sets and I'd have like one teacher, which was really bad.

Devon Sawa

....Then he felt quite ashamed, and hid his head under his wing; for he did not know what to do, he was so happy, and yet not at all proud. He had been persecuted and despised for his ugliness, and now he heard them say he was the most beautiful of all the birds. Even the elder-tree bent down its bows into the water before him, and the sun shone warm and bright. He would never became vain or conceited, and would always remembered how it felt to be despised and teased, and he was very sorry for all the creatures who are so treated merely because they are different from those around them. Then he rustled his feathers, curved his slender neck, and cried joyfully, from the depths of his heart,

Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugl

I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true.

Alanis Morissette

To be playful is not to be trivial or frivolous, or to act as if nothing of consequence will happen. On the contrary, when we are playful everything that happens is of consequence, for seriousness is a dread of the unpredictable outcome of open possibility. To be serious is to press for a specified conclusion. To be playful is to allow for unlimited possibility.

James P. Carse

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

People of the Philippines: I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil

General Douglas MacArthur, Remin

It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.

Publilius Syrus

A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.

Otto von Bismarck

History does not repeat itself. Historians repeat each other.

Arthur Balfour

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.

Richard Powers

When God was creating fathers, He started with a tall frame. An angel nearby said, What kind of father is that? If you

Erma Bombeck, attributed