The pleasures of relaxed chat, of casual conversation, encourage the ethnographer in everyone

Craftsmanship names an enduring, basic human impulse, the desire to do a job well for its own sake.

We are more likely to fail as craftsmen due to our inability to organize obsession than because of our lack of ability.

Authority is itself inherently an act of imagination.

Issac Stern rule: the better your technique, the more impossible your standards.

Raise your love so high that anger cannot reach it.

I never stopped loving her, " he said. "I couldn’t let her go. Once the past gets you in its clutches, well, you’ve got to want to fight to be released. I never did. That was my mistake.

Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.

I know myself," he cried, "but that is all-

We, too, born to freedom, and believing in freedom, are willing to fight to maintain freedom. We, and all others who believe as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Our involvement in the civil rights movement is what sent us into our involvement against apartheid.

When you're running down the street on fire, people get out of your way!

I'm a first-past-the-post person, and always have been.

Waiting for the conspiracy theorists to tell the truth is a little like leaving the front-porch light on for Jimmy Hoffa.

Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death.