Dana M. Baird

“There ain't no devil, only God when he's drunk.”
― Tom Waits

“The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, 'You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.”
― George Carlin

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
― Alice Walker

“The story comes around, pushing at our brains, and soon we are trying to ravel back to the beginning, trying to put families into order and make sense of things. But we start with one person, and soon another and another follows, and still another, until we are lost in the connections.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Bingo Palace