Subtext Bookstore Quotes

#1. Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you're different in a society, you're funny.

Will Eisner

#2. I'm a great believer in the fact that as you get to know someone, it matters not what religious background they have, or what their nationality is, or where they came from. And I think that's how Americans really do relate to each other on a personal level.

Condoleezza Rice

#3. If anything, his parables guarantee the failure not only of his characters, but of readers wishing to abstract any lessons applicable to their own lives. Failure, it seems, is Kafka's true subject.

Franz Kafka

#4. Mrs. Gley came down in a rush. She had on a kind of tea gown whose draperies flew out behind her, like the tail of a blowzy comet.

Ross Macdonald

#5. I find her and find her and find her but I can't find her.

Jandy Nelson

#6. Everyone has a yoke that binds them.

E.M. Ragland

#7. A goal without a plan is a dream.

Elbert Hubbard

#8. I'm more of a mimic. My accent tends to drift to where ever I am.

Ricky Whittle