I don’t mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one. – Mark Haddon
I became a cartoonist because I’d sort of failed at everything else, really. I mean, it was by default. – Michael Leunig
I don’t do anything mysterious on purpose. I’m less than forthcoming, but that doesn’t necessarily mean I’m mysterious. It just means I’m not inclined to go there. – Leon Redbone
‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.’ – Lewis Carroll
I mean the interesting thing I think would be if something happened like, what happened in England where all these kids that all of a sudden can’t afford the ticket prices. – Lester Bangs
Sports have become increasingly more specialized, but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be fun. – Mia Hamm
The squares of the periodic times are to each other as the cubes of the mean distances. – Johannes Kepler
I think the bottom line for Oregonians is that cleaner fuels mean cleaner air, and we need that, and we want that. – Kate Brown
It seems to me that the novel as a medium has a very low signal-to-noise ratio. By which I mean: there are a lot of novels published, but the vast majority of them don’t represent major contributions to the medium. – Lev Grossman
And it has some weight, I mean, the whole history of the gargoyles, that’s some wonderful stuff. – Keith David
I mean it’s easier to be in a demonstration if it’s a trip that’s one of the reasons why the whole thing fell apart in 1971, because it wasn’t a trip any longer. – Lester Bangs
I often want things to make definite statements. If I order onions sliced thinly on my hamburger, I don’t want them to come out sort of medium. But that doesn’t mean it’s a reasonable desire, in all things. – John Edgar Wideman
I mean the fact is that some of this information that we have found out that led to Usama bin Laden actually came from these enhanced interrogation techniques. – Rick Santorum
We have a lot of Brazilians in the United States. It doesn’t mean we’re traitors to our country. – Rafael dos Anjos
