Desfavorables Quotes & Sayings

Our job is not to amuse our readers. Our mission is to stir them, inform and inflame them. Our task is to continually hold up our government and our leaders to clear-eyed analysis, unaffected by professional spinmeisters and agenda-pushers. In these times, when those of us who are members of the 'reality-based community' are under relentless attack from both the right and the left, we must encourage, and our work must reflect, independent and non-ideological thinking. — Tony Auth

Living in Pakistan, you didn't have a sense of how huge and varied America was, geographically. — Kumail Nanjiani

The bats inebriate the sky . . . — A.E. Stallings

The most conspicuous thing about suffering is, as W.H. Auden once observed, its banality. The day is green, the sun is shinging, someone is eating, or opening a window, the torturer's horse is scatching its innocent behind on a tree, and in a mere second someone we love is dead. — Michael Jackson

I am the woman with the cool vintage glasses ... I am the proud wife beside her husband ... I am the writer who has written a new novel. — Ann Hood