I’ve found I sometimes have the best success working on characters I didn’t really connect to right away. Jeff Lemire Read Quote
I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America. Alexis de Tocqueville Read Quote
I always knew my mother loved me, but I also knew just as surely that there were moments, hours, days, when she could hardly cope with her own life, much less motherhood. Often, these episodes came without warning, like a change in weather, and so I became a meteorologist of her dysphoria. Kim Brooks Read Quote
If you write something that gets a bad response, or someone commits candor or is off message, there are often consequences almost immediately when it appears in the paper or a magazine, that somebody gets called into the boss’s office. And sometimes it can result in a loss of access for the reporter. Ron Suskind Read Quote
In the U.S. and Canada, 50% of the young leadership of all the organizations like AIPAC and Hillel are Birthright alumni. Charles Bronfman Read Quote
We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary. Ken Follett Read Quote
Not because I’m trying to be fabulous, but I love those big crazy Jackie O shades. Alicia Keys Read Quote
Presidents have to decide what their popularity is for. Lyndon Johnson probably understood best that political popularity is a wasting asset. You had to use it when you had it. H. W. Brands Read Quote
Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn’t lend itself to histrionics. You ‘take in’ a baseball game, something odd to say about a football or basketball game, with the clock running and the bodies flying. Charles Krauthammer Read Quote