Joan

“Cassandra had been given knowledge of the future and simultaneously condemned to a lifetime of being disbelieved and rejected. The wearisome preoccupation of the elderly—namely, the conviction that they had already seen the show but could never pass on the lessons they had learned from it—was not unlike Cassandra’s burden, except the anger and bitterness of old people was not the stuff of Homeric epics.”
― James Lee Burke, Rain Gods

“I love the way that each book—any book—is its own journey. You open it, and off you go….”
― Sharon Creech

“Conservatism is progressivism driving the speed limit.”
― Michael Malice

“According to the telephone poll, a full 40 percent of black women felt that the use of physical force was appropriate in a marriage. And black women especially could not abide Marcia Clark.”
― Jeffrey Toobin, The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson