Language is the only homeland.
Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.
There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness.
The presumption of innocence is not just a legal concept. In commonplace terms, it rests on that generosity of spirit which assumes the best, not the worst, of the stranger.
You and I know that there is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly.
Perhaps the most fundamental value of a liberal education is that it makes life more interesting. It allows you to think things which do not occur to the less learned. . . it makes it less likely that you will be bored with life.
There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.
Parents. . . are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early years.
The fact that it's science fiction gives you the license to do anything you want to do.
I love "30 Rock" because Tina Fey allows me to fly over the cuckoo nest once a week.
It's very much like a torture sometimes, the process of trying to get rid of an accent.