Chris Giles

“There are two kinds of people in the world: the kind who alphabetize their record collections, and the kind who don't.”
― Sarah Vowell, The Partly Cloudy Patriot

“Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.”
― Christopher Hitchens

“Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know. For me, the spark that turns an acquaintance into a friend has usually been kindled by some shared enthusiasm . . . At fifteen, I couldn't say two words about the weather or how I was doing, but I could come up with a paragraph or two about the album Charlie Parker with Strings. In high school, I made the first real friends I ever had because one of them came up to me at lunch and started talking about the Cure.”
― Sarah Vowell, The Partly Cloudy Patriot

“The idea is to eat well and not die from it - for the simple reason that that would be the end of my eating.”
― Jim Harrison