Dave Eggers: "Oh, to live among..."

"Oh, to live among peacocks. I’d seen them once in person and they defied so many laws of color and gravity that they had to be mad geniuses waiting to take over everything."

–Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity

Robert H. Lincoln: "There are two rules..."

"There are two rules for success:
1. Never tell everything you know."

-Robert H. Lincoln

Sarah Vowell: "American history is a..."

"American history is a quagmire, and the more one knows, the quaggier the mire gets."

—Sarah Vowell, The Partly Cloudy Patriot (The Partly Cloudy Patriot)

Tennessee Williams: "Liquor improves my concentration."

"Liquor improves my concentration."

—Tennessee Williams, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore