That's what we Americans do when we find a place that's really special. We go there and act exactly like ourselves. And we are a bunch of fun-loving dopes.
Sarah VowellJesus and Lincoln, Moses and Jefferson can seem so long gone, so unbelievable, so dead.
Sarah VowellThe whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought you could try.
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 Vowell