Quotes by : Sarah Vowell

In the United States, there was no simpler, more agreeable time.

All those adorable towheaded kids in the promotional film are going to turn thirteen. Once a family member....

That year, a middle-aged acquaintance asked me what my favorite book was and I said "On the Road." He....

Back inside, I’m shown an antique cabinet in which members of the community, famous for their homegrown....

Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American....

Acts 16:9 is the meddler's motto, simultaneously selfless and self-serving, generous but stuck-up. Into....

It's such a hopeful, almost utopian word, that word "phase." As if any minute, "we" would suffer some....

By journey's end the brides were much better acquainted with their grooms and more or less pleased with....

We were breathing sooty air. The soot was composed of incinerated glass and steel but also, we knew,....

The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief.