Peter Gehred

“But periodically I do explode. Now the good thing about this is that over time, the explosions have gotten smaller and the recovery time is faster, but what is guaranteed is that I will explode. So what I do, because I'm a good hostess (except for the Greg thing) - I provide my guests with bibs. So they don't get my crazy juice all over their nice clothes.”
― Carrie Fisher, Shockaholic

“While in the past the newsreaders would speak in clam voices conveying reassurance and balanced consideration. Now they spoke in shrill tones that created panic in a viewers heart. They created the disaster before it had occurred.”
― Kiran Desai, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

“Now, I am not a stupid person. I’m a fairly intelligent person who does stupid things. Incredibly stupid things. I can’t defend it. I can explain it until the end of time, but that still doesn’t make it in any way excusable, especially when you factor in the impact it had on my daughter (along with anyone else in my bonkers life who gave a shit about me). And I did it knowing full well how painful it was to have a parent who was unable to resist the impulse to resort to getting consistently altered. Altered and unavailable.”
― Carrie Fisher, Shockaholic

“Rhythm matters, mood matters, sense of place matters. All these things we talk about with novels.

And I feel that for history and biography, to accomplish what they should accomplish, they have to pay as much attention to these devices as novels do.”
― Robert A. Caro, Working