Quotations
"Famous remarks are seldom quoted correctly."
-Simeon Strunsky
"You can't have everything. Where would you put it?"
-Steven Wright
"No subject is too private for good fiction if it can be made beautiful and enlightening."
-Barbara Kingsolver
Sarah: "Sshh, I'm trying to dissect myself in my head."
Jodi: "Aren't we all."
"We put cheese in places you've never dreamed of!"
-Pizza Hut
"I wrote you those nice
poems only because
the honest ones
would frighten you."
-Jewel Kilcher
Me: "You usually don't introduce your real friends to your imaginary friends."
Addy: "Yeah, cuz they might sit on each other...real friends always sit on imaginary friends."
"Me, I always entertain these Winona Ryder hopes and dreams for my hair, but I always come out with this David Schwimmer reality."
-Elvira Kurt
(issue #20)
"Left to it's own devices, my mind spends much of it's time having conversations with people who aren't there."
-Anne Lamott
"No, I don't really know much about misogyning."
-Kim's housemate Tom, when asked if he was a misogynist
"Working in a slide library makes you realize that there are a lot more transvestites out ther than you thought."
-Addy, making an astute observation
"Like ewoks, only not cute and not furry."
-Andy's view on children
(issue #19)
"Nobody belongs to us, except in memory."
-John Updike
"Some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly hard lesson to learn."
-Katharine Graham
"Josef Stalin, grab onto my armored mumu, and together we will leave this foul earth behind!"
-from the Tick vs. the Terror
"In a better universe, there'd probably be a lot more 'straight' people who could admit they were somewhat curved."
-Carol of Whirling Cervix zine
"She's like a cross between Marilyn Monroe and some big bitch."
-a fairly accurate description of my friend Duckie
(issue #18)
"Power corrupts. Absolute power is kinda neat though."
-Anonymous
"The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset."
-Anthony D'Angelo
"Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications."
-Fran Lebowitz
"We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe."
-Goethe
(issue #17)
"Christianity is a big problem. It says 'God loves us all.'"
-Matthew Hale, white supremacist and LOSER OF THE MONTH!
"Half the harm done in this world is due to people who want to feel important."
-T.S. Eliot
"If your mind isn't open, keep your mouth shut too."
-Sue Grafton
"It isn't a mistake to have strong views. The mistake is to have nothing else."
-Anthony Weston
"People used to live lives of quiet desperation--now they go on talk shows."
-Bob Thaves
(issue #16)
"When people put down feminism and gay rights, they always talk about "family" and "morality." That's bullshit; what they're talking about is power."
-Lowell Bean
"What people say behind your back is your standing in the community."
-Edgar Watson Howe
"I want to seize fate--by the throat!"
-Ludwig Von Beethoven
"Humor can be an incredible, lacerating, and effective weapon."
-Carl Hiaasen
"There is no sin except stupidity."
-Oscar Wilde
(issue #15)
"Madness and inspiration are not too far removed."
-Dr. Mike Vander Wheele
"I love moon stuff anyway. I am woman! Hear me menstruate!"
-Marjorie Ingall
"Take eloquence and wring it's neck!"
-Paul Verlaine
"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true."
-James Branch Cabell
"If homosexuality is a disease, let's call in queer to work. 'Hello, can't work today, still queer!'"
-Stephanie Strong
(issue #14)
"Oh, movies are important, and they're dangerous. I mean, we're the keepers of the dreams."
-Susan Sarandon
"I'm a woman. I don't always say what I want. I do, however, reserve the right to be pissed off if I don't get it."
-from the movie "Sliding Doors".
"Diane, I'm looking at a small box of chocolate bunnies."
-Kyle MacLaughlan as Agent Cooper in "Twin Peaks"
"We all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists."
-Sylvia Plath
(issue #12)
"If I had a brain I'd be dangerous."
-Deb Meyers-Beasley
"The universe is made of stories, not atoms."
-Muriel Rukeyser
"Don't judge a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes. That way, when you judge him, you're a mile away and you have his shoes."
-Jeremy Simon
(issue #11)
"Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new."
-Ursula K. LeGuin
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
-Oscar Wilde
"an optimist is a guy
that has never had
much experience"
-Donald R.P. Marquis
"The greater the ignorance, the greater the dogmatism."
-Sir William Oster
(issue #10)
"Life is just one damned thing after another."
-attributed to both Frank Ward O'Malley and Elbert Hubbard
"Nonsense and beauty have close connections."
-E.M. Forster
"An honest God is the noblest work of man."
-Robert G. Ingersoll
"Impropriety is the soul of wit."
-William Somerset Maugham
"In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful."
-Alice Walker
(issue #9)
"Print is the sharpest and strongest weapon."
-Josef Stalin
"The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy."
-Max Jacob
"Anyone who hates children and dogs can't be all bad."
-William Claude Fields
"The American police are involved in a psychological warfare against those Americans who don't frighten them with imposing papers and threats. It's a Victorian police force; it peers out of musty windows and wants to inquire about everything, and can make crimes if crimes don't exist to it's satisfaction."
-Jack Kerouac
(issue #7)
"Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open."
-Sir James Dewar
"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware."
-Henry Miller
"It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all."
-Anais Nin
"To most people, nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking."
-James Bryce
(issue #6)
"I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy."
-J.D. Salinger
"Most women need a room of their own, even if it is outside of their home."
-Germaine Greer
"There is little room for wisdom when one is full of judgement."
-Malcolm Hein
(issue #5)
"Man is what he believes."
-Anton Chekhov
"Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops."
-Cary Grant in "Arsenic and Old Lace"
"That's quite a dress you almost have on."
-Gene Kelly commenting on a one-shouldered dress in "An American in Paris."
"Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth."
-Pablo Picasso
(issue #4)
"Books may well be the only true magic."
-Alice Hoffman
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered."
-Nelson Mandela
"I'm sick to death of straight people. Tell the truth, aren't you? There's just too goddamn many of them. I was in a bank the other day--they were everywhere, writing checks, making deposits. Two of them were applying for a mortgage. It was disgusting! They're taking over. No one wants to talk about it, but it's true."
-Terrence McNally, from "Love!Valour!Compassion!"
(issue #3)
"Laughter is the language of the soul."
-Pablo Neruda
"We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams."
-?
"I wish I had the heart of a small child. I would keep it in a jar on my desk."
-Shanti Goldstein
(issue #2)
"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."
-Mark Twain
"Why not? What's wrong with you? Did you have a lobotomy? This shit's been going down for four thousand years and you're not pissed yet?"
-Lynn Breedlove, on women who say they're not angry
"Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker."
-Ogden Nash
(issue #1)
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