Quotes About Maus

#1. I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it's not that great.

Ted Rall

#2. Mickey Maus," William was saying, "is a nut about butter. The only time he ever lost his cool was when we were having a small brunch and we were down to our last three pounds of butter. He panicked.

Lilian Jackson Braun

#3. To get around these things, Maus lived at the back of a closet. The door was

Steven Kotler

#4. I'll chase the demons away, Maus.

Tionne Rogers

#5. And he found himself thinking that maybe stories don't just make us matter to each other - maybe they're also the only way to the infinite mattering he'd been after for so long.

John Green

#6. He did not know which was more painful, the waking or the sleeping. When he slept, he dreamed: dark disturbing dreams of blood and broken promises. When he woke, there was nothing to do but think, and his waking thoughts were worse than nightmares.

George R R Martin

#7. The categories of woman and man are too rigid. They're going to give way to new forces. They already have, to a degree, but for most of us, this drama held sway, and we assumed our positions.

John Maus

#8. I threw my hands on my hips, shocked by the irony. A Mather helping a Greensmith? Hell was freezing over somewhere beneath our feet and every kind of farm animal was sprouting wings to fly.

Leigh Goff

#9. In our culture, the Oedipal drama succeeds in making us assume either a male or female sexual position. Certainly this is an ancient construct that's rapidly coming apart.

John Maus

#10. Happiness is not the purpose of life. The purpose of life is "to glorify God and enjoy Him forever."3

Marian Jordan

#11. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true death.

Cassandra Clare

#12. Maybe this is blasphemy to say, but I feel like music is not meant to be something that earning your keep depends on because it cheapens it and it will force you into making decisions in the interest of earning your keep, as opposed to the interest of the thing itself.

John Maus

#13. I'm sure a handful of people can relate to that experience of having some kind of romantic encounter - the event of love - which they just can't shake. They take it with them, despite their own desire, and it continually haunts them, and there's nothing to be done about it. That's a true rarity.

John Maus

#14. It's so important what you're doing in your life. It's tremendously important to the work, and no aesthetic theories take that into account.

John Maus

#15. I don't mean to romanticise the struggle, that leads to all kinds of terrible violence and absurdities that are even worse than the perverse immediate gratification.

John Maus

#16. For many, to live in a universe that may have no purpose, and no creator, is unthinkable.

Lawrence M. Krauss

#17. Musical acts that feign enthusiasm for what they're doing the guitarist who jumps up and down, like it's choreographed are so transparently vacuous.

John Maus

#18. Workouts should be tailored to the participant rather than the participant tailored to the workout.

Charline Ratcliff

#19. If I died, I'd expect my guy to mourn me forever, and if he tried to hook up with someone else, I'd haunt him till he ended up in a crazy house. Then I'd haunt the girl.

Gena Showalter

#20. I would never want to kill a human being.

John Maus

#21. Anytime you can muster the fury to actually write in the face of the impossibility of writing, that's an achievement.

John Maus

#22. I've learned one thing in politics. You don't take a decision until you have to.

Margaret Thatcher

#23. I am definitely interested in soundtracks that one might associate with fantasy or sci-fi - they tend to be rich with musical ideas.

John Maus

#24. The man believes the woman's got the hidden secret. That's a rare thing. You meet lots of people, and they're all deserved of love, of course, but romantic love involves some kind of supplement: she has the secret. That's what's desired.

John Maus

#25. It seems to me that the best work I've done - and maybe this is something other people can identify with - was because it was an end in itself. It was something other than making ends meet, it was an escape from all that.

John Maus

#26. Various people have put forth that love is the scene of two, that it's not about unity, it's about two absolutely disjunct positions encountering each other. So even with something like sex you could never become one.

John Maus

#27. With writing music, as a general rule I'm looking for something that surprises me, that doesn't fall within what's easy for me.

John Maus

#28. I really try as hard as I can on the show. If people can't see my face, if they can't see my sweat beads or at least that I'm struggling, that I'm not just pretending or going through the motions, then who can blame them for thinking that it's some kind of ridiculous piss-take?

John Maus

#29. I'm against eating a human being alive - I don't do it. Somebody might make cannibalism jokes and laugh it off like it's nothing. I don't agree with that. I want to proclaim a rejection of cannibalism.

John Maus

#30. We should not exercise the body without the joint assistance of the mind; nor exercise the mind without the joint assistance of the body.

Plato

#31. That's what you did when someone was having a hard time. You fed them. It was a tradition that crossed all cultures.

Nichole Chase

#32. There's really not much in life that's as violent or traumatic as an encounter with somebody who really surprises you and opens up that strange dynamic that's involved in romantic love.

John Maus