“You ever think that life is something that happens and that you’re not ever completely prepared for?”

“The essence of fascism is to make laws forbidding everything and then enforce them selectively against your enemies.”

“In Land of Milk and Money, Anthony Barcellos mines rich family history to create a full-blooded tale that readers will find insightful, rewarding, and entertaining.”

“You should never, ever be understood completely. That's like the kiss of death, isn't it? It's a full stop. I don't ever think you should put full stops on thoughts. They change.”

“Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will… but then again, if you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all. Imagining isn’t perfect. You can’t get all the way inside someone else… But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, is the only way in. It is the machine that kills the fascists”

“Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will”

“nothing exciting ever happens, so you stop thinking it's going to. and then something does happen, and you miss it. completely. ”