"And if my thought-dreams could be seen, they'd put my head inside a guillotine"
Bob Dylan

(from inside the cover of M.M.'s book, "Will they ever trust us again?" Letters from the war zone.

I don't want realistic, I want magic!

Blanche Dubois

STELLA!STELLA!

"I SEEN HER BUT....... she didn't see me"

She got freckles on her BUT........ she's pretty

my father said these when I was a kid a long long time ago - and

"must be jam cause jelly don't shake like that"

"Where are we going? And why am I in this handbasket?"


I don't know who said it first...but I'm with you!

"I wouldn't like the suburbs. The neighbors come to your door & tell you to cut your grass."
--P. Pittsburgh Joe, explaining to a coworker why he prefers living in the city

And now, proving that sometimes the apple doesn't fall far from the tree:

"You always wanna eat in a restaurant with an 'A' sanitation rating. If it's 'B' or lower, that means the food is as nasty as what we eat at home."
--Son #1

"I figure that if the women of our house can support testicles, the men of the house can support women's breasts."
--Daughter, explaining to her gym teacher why she & her mom wear Lance Armstrong bracelets & while her dad & brothers wear breast cancer awareness bracelets.

And now for something completely different:

"Your dad is as 'Pittsburgh' as you can get without being ghetto."
--Son #1's friend Reid.

"Democracy can not be exported."

-Vladimir Putin

"My one regret in life is that I am not someone else" Woody Allen

"If you've seen one redwood, you've seen 'em all" Ronald Reagan

"turkeys are our friends" Moby

"money doesn't talk, it swears" Bob Dylan

"I like Joe's family" Louise.