Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship.
Sarah VowellOne night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes.
Sarah VowellI no longer drink nearly as much as I used to but, still, my motto is Sine coffea nihil sum. Without coffee, I'm nothing.
Sarah VowellI'm always disappointed when I see the word 'Puritan' tossed around as shorthand for a bunch of generic, boring, stupid, judgmental killjoys. Because to me, they are very specific, fascinating, sometimes brilliant, judgmental killjoys who rarely agreed on anything except that Catholics are going to Hell.
Sarah Vowell