Quote of the Week

Also, and finally, I realized that I too was not immortal. Any day I could be snatched off the landscape; and if I were, I would disappear without ever having lived my own life. What I wanted to do was write. Very well then, that was what I would do, even if -- as then seemed probably -- I would never again be published.
--Alison Lurie, Words and Worlds: From Autobiography to Zippers

Movie Quote of the Week

So easy for you to die dramatically! It's a hell of a lot tougher for those of us who have to keep on trying!
--Delores Taylor, Billy Jack (1971)