Doris Lessing Doesn’t Give a Crap About Nobel Prize Win

“Oh Christ! I couldn’t care less. This has been going on for 30 years. I’ve won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one, so I’m delighted to win them all. It’s a royal flush.� —Doris Lessing, on her winning the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature [WaPo]

“She was flustered at first. But people forget she’s in her eighties. It’s like photographing your great aunt. I said, ‘Of course, she’s tired of wearing those clothes. She’s in her 80s, it’s hard to put them on, and the cape weighs like 75 pounds.’� —Annie Leibovitz discusses her photo session with Queen Elizabeth II [AP]

“I do want to apologize publicly for that tape. Not for the tape … just for hanging out with Scott Stapp.� —Kid Rock on the sex tape he made with Creed front man Stapp and four women [Blender via People]

“To paraphrase Stephen Colbert, that great philosopher, this administration doesn’t make decisions based on facts, it makes facts based on decisions.� —Hillary Clinton, who totally gets her news from Comedy Central the way the rest of us do [Caucus/NYT]

“I hope to have a tiny microphone implanted to it that will connect with a bluetooth transmitter; that way you can listen to what my ear is hearing.� —Artist Stelios Arcadiou, who had a real ear implanted on his arm as a “relief sculpture� [Daily Mail]
—Elizabeth Black