In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?
Intellectualism, though by no means confined to doubters, is often the sole piety of the skeptic.
A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.
If for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, many points of fascinating interpretation are open to the paranoid imagination.
It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.
If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.
The idea of the paranoid style as a force in politics would have little contemporary relevance or historical value if it were applied only to men with profoundly disturbed minds. It is the use of paranoid modes of expression by more or less normal people that makes the phenomenon significant.
We're all worth it, man. We're all worth millions of planets and stars and galaxies and universes.
History doesn't always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.
I opened the show with this line: "I have decided to give the greatest performance of my life! Oh, wait, sorry, that's tomorrow night.
Somehow it just don't seem fitting for a man to spend his wedding night in a tree.