"Whoever said money can't buy happiness wasn't spending it helping people who needed it."

"Of course I’m delighted that Fun Home has met with such success, but it still strikes me as very unlikely that an odd, cerebral story about a lesbian and her closeted gay suicidal mortician father wou…"

"were viewed as the literary equivalent of bubblegum cards, meant to be poked into the spokes of a young mind where they would produce a satisfying—but entirely bogus—rumble of pleasure."

"In my time I've been very fortunate to see many of my dreams come true! Growing up in the 1920s and 1930s, I never expected to see so much happen in the span of a few decades. We "space cadets" of the…"

"It's very severe, but very honest. Unless Japanese people feel embarrassed from the experience of getting harsh comments, saying could have been better is not an opinion they would take seriously. Whe…"