Would you reach the infinite? Then enter into finite things, working out all that they contain.

The most consummately beautiful thing in the universe is the fashioned life of a good person.

I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.

The worst thing a kid can say about homework is that it is too hard. The worst thing a kid can say about a game is it's too easy.

We have got to mobilize people and rethink our commitment in terms of what our role is in the political process.

I don't have to take this abuse from you -- I have hundreds of people waiting in line to abuse me!

I don't care a damn for your loyal service when you think I am right; when I really want it most is when you think I am wrong.

I'm the Nickelodeon version of DangerMouse.

The aim of the scholarly editor is not to produce the the easiest text for the reader, but to get as near as he can to the text of the author.

Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.

My grandmother could never have written a memoir, so 'The Gravedigger's Daughter' is a homage to her life, and to the lives of other young women of her generation, which are so rarely articulated.

Living in the world of the workshop, which I do as a teacher, you have to be articulate about craft. And that often involves imposing analysis on work that's in a pretty raw state.

He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.