You know you've reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality.
Sarah VowellA couple of times he called the second he'd finished reading a novel and just had to tell me about it, and I know it sounds hokey and librarianish to say so, but I just swooned when he did that.
Sarah VowellThe only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief. And by dangerous I don't mean thought-provoking. I mean: might get people killed.
Sarah VowellWhy is America the last best hope of Earth? What if it's Liechtenstein? Or, worse, Canada?
Sarah VowellClemenza's overriding responsibility is to his family. He takes a moment out of his routine madness to remember that he had promised his wife that he would bring dessert home. His instruction to his partner in crime is an entire moral manifesto in six little words: 'Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Sarah Vowell