Sarah Vowell Author Quotations

We go in to liberate Cuba, but Cuba still isn't free; we don't really think through what we'll do after the initial treaty is signed, but we're still occupying. There's chaos and torture and finally an outcry.

I seem to have no problem revealing my crush on the man who murdered Lincoln.

I was a big Nancy Drew reader. Nancy figures it out. Case closed.

The one time I was an actor, it happened to be in a globally dominant juggernaut. That was lucky.

So much of broadcasting hasn't really noticed that Watergate happened, that no one takes the voice of authority seriously anymore.