Rod Brown

“[Calvin's Mom is driving him somewhere.]

CALVIN: Mom, can I drive on the way back?

CALVIN'S MOM: Of course not, Calvin.

CALVIN: Can I just steer then? I promise I won't crash.

CALVIN'S MOM: No, Calvin.

CALVIN: Can I work the gas and brakes while YOU steer?

CALVIN'S MOM: No, Calvin.

CALVIN: You never let me do anything.”
― Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes

“When you have everything, the only luxury left is taking things away from others.”
― Kirsten Miller, Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books

“I have a foreboding of America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time–when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all of the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; with our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.

And when the dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites now down to 10 seconds or less, lowest-common-denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“I loved being a student actor. I was fully devoted to it, and now I'm not. I think if I'd become a professional, I would have fallen out of love with it anyway. It isn't a sadness, but a joy, that we don't do the same thing for the length of our lives.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow