I try not to think about what people think of me. You can’t, because then you get hung up in all the people who love you, and you’ve also got all the people who hate you, because of what you’re doing. Eve Ensler Read Quote
The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul. Eliza Farnham Read Quote
My parents worked as brokers at Oppenheimer securities. They managed to finagle me a job. Steve Eisman Read Quote
It’s funny I’m talking to ‘Rolling Stone’ right now, because back then, it was like, ‘Punk rock? Put it back. It’s just a flash in the pan.’ Glenn Danzig Read Quote
Something I notice speaking to writers from south of Hadrian’s Wall is that the culture is different. At base, I think Scotland values its creative industries differently from England. Sara Sheridan Read Quote
In high school, I was so obsessed with the movie that I started an actual ‘Highlander’ club with my two best friends, Mike Levy and David Sirota. What began as a few geeks hitting each other with swords we made in woodshop soon became a school-wide game with 20 people playing. It became so disruptive that the administration had to shut it down. Adam F. Goldberg Read Quote
Future historians trying to determine what it was like to be alive in fin de millennium America should read the last two decades of O. Henry and Best American short-story collections. Gary Krist Read Quote
I can talk about sports and stuff, but I have a season pass for ‘Antiques Roadshow’ on my TiVo. Paul Rudd Read Quote
Watching the evening news in 2011 is a strange time-travel experience. ‘The CBS Evening News,’ ‘ABC World News’ and ‘NBC Nightly News’ haven’t changed their style over the decades, still going for that old-fashioned mix of voice-of-authority pomp and feel-good fluff. The difference is that people aren’t watching. Rob Sheffield Read Quote
Barack Obama has brought glamour back to American politics – not the faux glamour-by-association of campaigning with movie stars or sailing with the Kennedys, but the real thing. The candidate himself is glamorous. Audiences project onto him the personal qualities and political positions they want in a president. Virginia Postrel Read Quote
