Ethan Mordden

“The aficionado prefers a crazy bomb to a mediocrity, because the musical as a form has such potential as entertainment that the merely adequate can fatigue the spirit while the disaster can amuse with its drastic misjudgments and desperation gambles.”

“...college wasn't more school, as Chris had anticipated. School was a normalization of the familiar. College was a penetration into the exotic.”

“If you don't want to be in a story, don't know a writer.”