330 Quotes by Susan Orlean

I feel somewhat responsible for the Borders Books bankruptcy.

I teach a non-fiction writing class at New York University, and one of my great pleasures is deciding on the syllabus.

I went to a football school, which meant that I went to a university that served up education and was simultaneously operating a sports franchise.

It is hard to imagine Thomas Kinkade as anything less than supremely self-assured.

Keeping animals, I have learned, is all about water. Who even knew chickens drank water? I didn't, but they do, and a lot.

Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn't know.

Oversized houses, like oversized cars, seem to be a particularly American fixation.

I had never considered using a hashtag anywhere other than on Twitter, but now I'm inspired. Text messages have always seemed a little flat to me, so the murmuring Greek chorus of a hashtag might be a perfect way to liven them up and give them a bit of dimension.

In an interesting inversion of status, the reigning breed in the dog park these days is the really-oddball-unidentifiable-mixed-breed-mutt-found-wandering-the-street or its equivalent. The stranger the mutt the better; the more peculiar the circumstance of it coming into your life, the better.