Paula Poundstone Thinking Quotations

I have short-term memory loss, though I'd like to think of it as Persidential eligibility.

I have terrible short-term memory loss, which I like to think of as Presidential eligibility.

I think we need a 12-step group for non-stop talkers. We're going to call it On and On Anon.

The mistakes that I made I made because I drank too much. I don't think that's going to happen any more. Am I going to make mistakes as a parent? Sadly, every day. I'm looking around for the perfect parent and I haven't seen one yet.

It's funny that we think of libraries as quiet demure places where we are shushed by dusty, bun-balancing, bespectacled women. The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. Librarians have stood up to the Patriot Act, sat down with noisy toddlers and reached out to illiterate adults. Libraries can never be shushed.