Sunup America Quotes & Sayings

You can't pray away the gay, but you can torture a conflicted closet-case to death. — Dan Savage

Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil. — Carl Sagan

Having parents who were hard working, blue collar, and staunchly independent, neither political party's positioning really impressed me. — Kurt Bills

The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come from, and I've often wondered if writing is just a socially acceptable form of madness. — Taiye Selasi

Driving forward is the chief characteristic of western man since the Sumerians. His dread triad of vices is property-holding, voraciousness, and lust. — Antonio Gramsci

When Scout finds Boo Radley hiding behind her bedroom door, she says something that is scary because it is calm. Something like, "Why, there's the man right there, Mr. Tate." Or whatever his name is. Scout's not surprised to find a hollow-eyed monster in the form of Robert Duvall behind her door. She opens a line into magic, possibility. Or mystery, that's a better word than magic. Like an open hole in the ground no one noticed until Scout pointed it out, a place where men with dark secrets live behind every bedroom door. Scout's calm voice says, "The rest of you are blind. — Samantha Hunt