Ultimately, because I’m an artist, I can’t ever consider myself a nihilist, so I suppose I’m optimistic. – Marilyn Manson
The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced. – Jane Bryant Quinn
I love playing the vamp, and I get sent out for a lot of that stuff, maybe because I do it well. – Jamie Luner
I became obnoxious to the Jacobins because I reprobated their aristocracy, which aimed at usurping all legitimate authority. – Marquis de Lafayette
I’m glad I won it because when I grew up the Pulitzer was the award that every composer wanted and I was like that too. – John Corigliano
I don’t read much of what I write because I worry about unintentionally borrowing something. – Kelley Armstrong
Luckily, I have my husband, who is Mr. Organized. Because I don’t have that part of Martha Stewart in my body. – Kimberly Schlapman
I’d rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I’d rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are. – Milton Berle
I’m not a Dickens guy. In grad school I had to take at least one course on the Victorians, so I took The Later Dickens, because that was what there was. – Lev Grossman
It is useful to compare the Branch Davidians with the Mormons of the mid-nineteenth century. The Mormons were vilified in those years in large part because Joseph Smith believed in polygamy. – Malcolm Gladwell
That is because the conflict with al Qaeda is not governed by the Geneva Conventions, which applies only to international conflicts between states that have signed them. – John Yoo
An e-cigarette does not function in manner of a traditional cigarette because it functions electrically rather than via combustion of a material such as tobacco. – Ken Cuccinelli
