You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian.

Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system.

People who cannot put strings of sentences together in good order cannot think. An educational system that does not teach the technology of writing is preventing thought.

Thought control, like birth control, is best undertaken as long as possible before the fact.

Educationists are entertaining. We can always find a good laugh in their prose, with its special, ludicrous combination of ignorance and pretentiousness.

If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.

His jargon conceals, from him, but not from us, the deep, empty hole in his mind. He uses technological language as a substitute for technique.

There is no other way to judge the work of a mind except through its words.

Education, I am convinced, must be nothing more than this: The journey toward the limits of Reason, if any there be.

An education that does not teach clear, coherent writing cannot provide our world with thoughtful adults; it gives us instead, at the best, clever children of all ages.

Who speaks reason to his fellow man bestows it upon them.

Jesus won the war, and the rest of history is simply mopping up.

Why are our inner lives so important? One reason is because our thoughts determine our actions.

Regarding the fitness craze: America has lost its soul; now it's trying to save its body.

I've been into gear for a long time, but I never saw myself as a producer because I didn't have the patience to finish things in a professional way.

I shall despair when I despair of myself, of God and humanity.

No more humiliation for me, thanks very much. No more swallowing my anger. Honestly, I couldn't manage another mouthful. But it was delicious. Did you make it yourself?

My wife and two children traveled with me on locations all last season.

I meditate but not regularly. I wish I did more meditation. It's always my New Year's resolution to do more.

I actually went into writing first to supplement my income, which was a strange thing to do and actually failed.

I see myself as an arbiter of taste.