Lydia Millet Quotes
-
I like to amuse myself.
-
In Nagasaki, American planes did drop warning leaflets - but not till Aug. 10, a day after the city was bombed.
-
I came to understand that a German nudist, in 1984, loved little more than to work on his or her tan.
-
When I was 16, I went to Berlin - West Berlin, since at that time a wall still divided the city - to live for three months with a family on an exchange program.
-
Pugs are creatures of habit.
-
I think the best fiction is a form of psychological suspense, even though I don't really write in that idiom.
-
I don't like names that are clever or made-up sounding.
-
More than two million years ago, mammoths and Asian elephants took different evolutionary paths - and around the same time, according to DNA research, so did their lumbering relatives in Africa.
-
The grizzly bears that live in and around Yellowstone make up almost half the population in the lower 48 states, and now those bears are at risk.
-
What makes 'The Lorax' such a powerful fable is partly its shamelessness. It pulls no punches; it wears its teacher heart on its sleeve.
-
I wanted to go into the tropics and save animals - and write, of course.
-
About half of all potential future global warming emissions from United States fossil fuels lie in oil, gas and coal buried beneath our public lands, controlled by the federal government and owned by the American people - and not yet leased to private industry for fuel extraction.
-
Do we seek delicate phraseology in politics or other forms of public life? We do not.
-
In Hiroshima, bombed Aug. 6, 1945, no warning was given of the air attack, and thus no escape was possible for the mostly women, children and old people who fell victim.
-
I have a king bed, one of those memory-foam mattresses that doesn't jiggle as you get in or out. Even if you cleaved it down the middle with a pickax, the thing wouldn't tremble. It's practically earthquake-proof.
-
Both climate change and extinction are results of our tyranny over the nonhuman world and our domination of, and exploitation of, whole categories of each other - and those, in turn, are clearly linked to agriculture, the cattle-industrial complex, capitalism.
-
I never seem to leave L.A., though I left L.A.
-
The summer after I got divorced, my children asked to sleep in my bed again. It would be the first time we'd shared a bed since they were infants.
-
Snark describes a cynical position, and I'm not interested in that.
-
I've always been interested in obsessive, insane people.
-
You're lucky if people like your book, and the more people that like it, the luckier I feel.
-
Shouldn't the cascades of extinction and rapid planetary warming register in our literature?
-
Indeed, the hype around 'Watchmen' is its curse. If you want to enjoy the comic for what it is, ignore the attributions of literariness and the novelistic pretensions with which some critics have imbued it. This isn't high culture, and it doesn't pretend to be. It's good, juicy pulp fiction with a little nuclear apocalypse thrown in.
-
If Oak Flat were a Christian holy site or, for that matter, Jewish or Muslim, no senator who wished to remain in office would dare to sneak a backdoor deal for its destruction into a spending bill - no matter what mining-company profits or jobs might result. But this is Indian religion.