"China no longer needs a revolution, the kind of total revolution that completely disrupts society. The costs are too high."
- Zhao Liang
"And it hits you: maybe it all boils down to this: people will do anything, anything, for a really nice laugh."
- Lorrie Moore (How to Be An Other Woman)
"My problem is, I feel like the celebrities, I feel like they’re not doing interesting enough stuff…I just think the famouses are just too normal. I think the famouses have become too normal to actually be that interesting."
- Ira Glass (This American Life)
"For a long time, I had a hard time with it. But…time heals everything…eventually you’re able to see through everything and realize exactly what was going on. And once you can see the truth of the matter, it makes it a lot easier to move past it…because it wasn’t just you that I was mad at, I was mad at a lot of folks…besides, being mad at someone only hurts yourself."
- Eric Wilson (PBS Frontline’s The Confessions)
"I don’t really use the computer that much. I don’t find out my information there…I have some books, and there’s just a lot of junk I don’t know."
- Paula Poundstone (NPR’s Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!)
You were thinking it, too.
Sometimes I wish they made waterproof books so I could read in the shower.
