I don’t believe in God as you imagine Him to be, but I believe in many things that you could never even dream of.
I did no know everything there was to know about myself, and knew that I did not know it.
Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.
The best teaching I ever experienced was at Exeter. Yale was a distinct letdown afterward.
Sarcasm is the protest of the weak.
As I walked briskly out the road the wind knifed at my face, but this sun caressed the back of my neck.
There are simply more young people than there ever were. You get this feeling of strength. Also, large numbers can be a drawback, making it difficult to lose one's anonymity.
A homeless man once told me that dancing to rap music is the cultural equivalent of masturbating, and I'd sort of fell the same way about playing John Madden Football immediately after filing my income tax: It's fun, but - somehow - vaguely pathetic.
Madman! Look through my eyes if thou hast none of thine own.
People who truly follow the Way would do well to conceal the fact that they are Buddhists.
I don't think he would have had any trouble answering Justice Sonia Sotomayor's excellent challenge in a case involving GPS surveillance. She said we need an alternative to this whole way of thinking about the privacy now which says that when you give data to a third party, you have no expectations of privacy. And [Louis] Brandeis would have said nonsense, of course you have expectations of privacy because it's intellectual privacy that has to be protected. That's my attempt to channel him on some of those privacy questions.