American history is a quagmire, and the more one knows, the quaggier the mire gets.

- Sarah Vowell

I talk about going to his [George W. Bush's] Inauguration and crying when he took the oath, 'cause I was so afraid he was going to "wreck the economy…

- Sarah Vowell

I have a similar affection for the parenthesis (but I always take most of my parentheses out, so as not to call undue attention to the glaring fact t…

- Sarah Vowell

The modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top

- Sarah Vowell

I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert t…

- Sarah Vowell

Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.

- Sarah Vowell

However, displayed right alongside all the Confederate flag paraphernalia is a bunch of American flag merch – American flag place mats, patriotic “bo…

- Sarah Vowell

What are you hiding? No one ever asks that.

- Sarah Vowell

You know, it's always good to have a synonym just for variety.

- Sarah Vowell