The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language.

Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

Even the human heart is slightly left of centre.

We are always in the place of beginning; there is no advance in infinity.

This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.

Man lives, not directly or nakedly in nature like the animals, but within a mythological universe, a body of assumptions and beliefs developed from his existential concerns.

The bible should be taught so early and so thoroughly that it sinks straight to the bottom of the mind where everything that comes along can settle on it.

It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to surrender precision for flexibility.

We are being swallowed up by the popular culture of the United States, but then the Americans are being swallowed up by it too. It's just as much a threat to American culture as it is to ours.

Understand one thing very clearly. Because all this: your time, this world, your life in it and all of those opportunities, they have a deadline.

If we do not redefine manhood, war is inevitable.

I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology.

Iraq has stockpiled biological and chemical weapons, and is rebuilding the facilities used to make more of those weapons.

I have a huge rib cage, which is why I can hold a note out until I'm blue in the face... because I have such a big lung capacity.

I would be a horrible girlfriend at this point in my life, because I’m both needy and unavailable.

The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.

The Muppets are no joke. They are for real. Each one has an agent and manager and all that stuff. I'm not even kidding.