I'm happy to report that 'The New Press' is still in business to this day. But not thanks to me. I was a really bad publishing intern.

Life lived amidst tension and busyness needs leisure. Leisure that recreates and renews. Leisure should be a time to think new thoughts, not ponder old ills.

C. Neil Strait

If you pray for rain, don't be surprised if you're struck by lightning.

Damien Cannon

May memory restore again and again The smallest color of the smallest day:Time is the school in which we learn,Time is the fire in which we burn.

Delmore Schwartz, Summer Knowled

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.

Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.

Naomi Campbell

He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.

Victor Hugo

I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.

Michel de Montaigne

I like that band Get Hustle. They're cool live. I haven't heard their records, though.

Stephen Malkmus

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

Wendell Phillips

The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need to intervene here, you don't say, Well, I read a science fiction novel that told me it's not a problem. If the crib's on fire, you don't speculate that the baby is flame retardant. You take action.

Al Gore

you don't have to worry about burning bridges, if you're building your own

Kerry E. Wagner

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

Felix Frankfurter