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“The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.”
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“I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton's head.”
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“The brand is lying about something, or at least misrepresenting it. When I read a bottle of shampoo or moisturizer or other beauty product, I always perceive a dark subtext. The words haunt me. It comes across as humorous to the reader/audience, but in fact the words really do make me a little bit queasy. Nothing is as easy or natural as consumer brands want us to think - no problem is as resolvable. Your hair will fall out, eventually. Yet we do have these brands, and we line our shelves with them. There's an inherent irony.”
Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013. 
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“Brains first and then Hard Work.”
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“The best brains of the nation may be found on the last benches of the classroom.”
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“All that you need to become an entrepreneur and change the world is a working brain - and pretty much nothing else.”
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“You will find, that when you have someone to love, that the face is less important than the brain, and the body is less important than the heart.”
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“We're all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there's too much thought and not enough heart.”
Source : Aimee Bender (2011). “The Girl in the Flammable Skirt: Stories”, p.11, Anchor
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“You cannot have a good character today and at the same time have a small mind and a little heart. You cannot have a good character today and be merely a petty reformer.”
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“Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.”
