Pogos Quotes

#1. This combat between proletariat and plutocracy is, after all, itself a civil war. Two inferiorities struggle for the privilege of polluting the world.

H.L. Mencken

#2. A fox is subtlety itself.

Aristophanes

#3. From 1968 on, I was pretty much the black, gay SF writer.

Samuel R. Delany

#4. We don't windsurf in Harlem.

Charles B. Rangel

#5. I did leave something behind with you: my heart. Of course, you didn't know it at the time. Maybe I didn't either. What have you done with my heart, Leo? Have you taken good care of it? Have you misplaced it?

Jerry Spinelli

#6. Like every other house-renting, paycheck-to-paycheck, heel dragging working American, it wouldn't matter if I stepped in it by accident or was pushed, or simply whiffed it as I walked by. With the powers in play, guilt or innocence had nothing to do with anything.

James Anderson

#7. I did a couple songs with this hip-hop guy named Tim Dark. He was working in the same studio I've been working in, he heard my music and he said, aw man, I've got to do something with you.

Alan Vega

#8. Someone who managed to navigate the tricky waters between living a life you could be proud of and still delighting in the many things there are to take pleasure in.

Calvin Trillin

#9. I'm more afraid of the living. Dead people can't rape me. There's

Mya Robarts

#10. We all go through a phase - it lasts a lifetime, for some of us - when we're embarrassed by our parents; we don't want them hanging around us because we're afraid they'll do or say something that will make us feel ashamed of them.

John Irving

#11. I should as soon expect a farmer to prosper in business who contented himself with sowing his fields and never looking at them till harvest, as expect a believer to attain much holiness who was not diligent about his Bible reading, his prayers, and the use of his Sundays.

J.C. Ryle