Quotes About Topics

I almost forgot to mention another fox I know of—a very wicked fox indeed. But you are tired of hearing about foxes now, so I won't go on.

Who else is there to marry?' she asked a friend; she at least had the great good fortune to be marrying for love.

In such a case the writer is apt to have recourse to epigrams. Somewhere in this world there is an epigram for every dilemma.

Most Hispanics are concerned with the same issues other Americans are - the economy, jobs, education. Similar to Main Street America.

With some whose nerves have a deep covering of fat, happiness is less of a problem that it is an accident of anatomy.

intriguing people have to invent a noxious, dangerous party...

All your stupid charities have armed the poor against you.

URLs don't even need to make sense to human eyes. But we humans prefer nice-looking URLs, like

I am much worse than a heretic Ã¢â'¬â€œ I am a pagan

allowing the cynical reader to proceed contentedly through the story alongside the sentimentalist.

Do you think I'd carry a gun in a suit like this ? My tailor would throw a fit.

A Reasonable Guide to Horrible Noise

All of human literature could just be a user's guide to the multiverse!

"Equestrian," by the by, is the gayest word in the English language. In fact, I thought Brokeback Mountain should have been called "Two Equestrians."

Readers can read what they want and easily switch to other books, so we're seeing a lot of reading behaviors. Some verticals attract different usage than others. We can spot reading patterns.

Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience.

The usefulness of science is sometimes exaggerated. You'd never talk about music being useful or art being useful.

MySpace News is designed to let users decide what's most relevant to them, and we've given them hundreds of subjects to choose from.

Nature never uses prime numbers. But mathematicians do.

I like Utah, but they don't have a Starbucks.

The reason I namecheck restorative justice so much is because that, to me, is the utopia.

I've taken pains to acknowledge that ergonomic pain is real and that ergonomics is valid.

Ultimately, you have to provide value to the user.

I think there is a real value in an editorial point-of-view and in editorial curation, and in putting together an entire narrative around a set of topics is important.