Alexander Chee
Alexander Chee

I met my first boyfriend when we were 13, playing 'Dungeons and Dragons' in the basement of my local comics shop. We were from the same small town in Maine but went to different schools.

Alexander Chee
Alexander Chee

When I left the state of Maine for college, I met my first really rich friends, and I discovered summer could be a verb.

Amy Tan
Amy Tan

My mother's openness has remained inspiring to me. I strive to be a skeptic, in the best sense of that word: I question everything, and yet I'm open to everything. And I don't have immovable beliefs. My values shift and grow with my experiences - and as my context changes, so does what I believe.

Anais Nin
Anais Nin

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

Andrea Riseborough
Andrea Riseborough

My grandparents were deeply affected by war, and it was obvious that the men who fought were horribly affected, as were the women who remained at home.

Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber

I guess the thing is that we remained huge friends after the original Phantom movie, when we decided it wouldn't take place and we just saw each other socially over the years so we were friends.

Chellie Pingree
Chellie Pingree

Maine people have a live-and-let-live philosophy, and tend to be fair and open-minded.

Chellie Pingree
Chellie Pingree

Access to quality, affordable health care is particularly important here in Maine, where many of us own small businesses or are self-employed.

Chellie Pingree
Chellie Pingree

In my home state of Maine, we've seen out-of-state groups with anonymous donors spend millions of dollars to campaign against issues that don't fit their agenda.

Chellie Pingree
Chellie Pingree

Renewable energy has economic advantages that extend beyond steady, predictable electric rates - and Maine is in a good position to capitalize on those opportunities.