It is hard to grow up in a society in which one's important problems are treated as nonexistent. It is impossible to belong to it, it is hard to fight to change it.

Not to teach the whole curriculum is to give up on the whole man.

The family is the American fascism.

The philosophic aim of education must be to get each one out of his isolated class and into the one humanity.

A good teacher feels his way, looking for response.

In America you can say anything you want - as long as it doesn't have any effect.

We certainly have at present the dismal situation that the most imaginative men are directed by a group, the top managers, who are among the least.

Few great men would have got past personnel.

When the sciences are supreme, average people lose their feeling of causality.

It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been the genius of the Americans.

The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author.

I am not afraid of giving bad reviews. If I don't like a book, I don't like it. Period. I don't do promotion

I'm getting more and more bored with professional sports, but I still watch.

We knew that his retirement would come one day and we both have been planning for it by ensuring the quality of the squad.

It is in this unearthly first hour of spring twilight that earth's almost agonized livingness is most felt. This hour is so dreadful to some people that they hurry indoors and turn on the lights.

Everyone should cultivate a secret garden.

I felt different although my mum kept reminding me it was OK to be different.

The best way to know what people want is not by asking them, but by understanding them.

Mathematicians stand on each others' shoulders and computer scientists stand on each others' toes.

The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more.

I'm sick of being known as the sexy guy that writes great songs.