Hillary and Gore both emerge as A-student types, conscientious geeks, eager to prove themselves and acutely aware of what other people think.
He called her "an incompetent fool," but said he would vote for her anyway.
He was a blue-collar bigot as lovable as he was infuriating. She was an upscale bleeding-heart matron as misguided as she was well intentioned.
"It costs dearly to realize your life's dream."
"I instantly knew that a life of ‘divine debauchery’ should be mine." He soon came to see that divine drudgery was more like it.
In 1890, a drug manufacturer who wanted every bird found in Shakespeare to live in America released 60 starlings in Central Park. ... there are now upward of 200 million across North America.
The most interesting is Michael Taylor, the wayward son of a wealthy commercial real estate developer, a forestry school dropout who drives through Santa Barbara selling knives out of a Volkswagen Rabbit painted with zebra stripes.
Not everything has to be a "teachable moment."
A little secretiveness is, perhaps, a necessary lubricant in our social relations.
"Moral exhortation doesn’t change people’s behavior. Prices do."
"The son of a mill worker [can] pay $400 for a haircut. ... People around the world look at us and say, 'That’s what we want.'"
Edwards presents himself as the good Samaritan ...
"What we notice with tattoo artists, versus other kinds of indie artists, is that tattoo artists like making money."
"I have lost all hope," one woman said, walking at the head of 11 [dead] relatives, mainly children.
"I don’t beat them that much."
It seems now that the audience position for rock is coming closer to that of jazz around the mid-1970s. Most of the forefathers are still with us; increasingly, they seem to have something important to teach us. And we are developing strange hungers for music of the not-so-distant past that might be bigger and deeper than the hunger we originally had.
"I don’t think that they need more packaging. I think that they need context."
