My subject is the educated imagination, and education is something that affects the whole person, not bits and pieces of him .

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.

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

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.

As long as there is life, my dear friends, laughter will be the weapon of we who mock it even as we struggle to understand it.

Strongest is not the one hard at heart, but the one tough at heart, to endure the hardest situations of life.

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses one misses more nonsense than sense.

When asked at age 7 whether he had ambivalent feelings about girls. No, I hate 'em!

I knew Danny DeVito and he knew me, so he wanted me to try Death to Smoochy. I loved that stuff and had a great time doing it.

Few players have cast a spell across the game like Yao Ming, before or since.

I was never like, "collect, collect," like people who go to auctions. I never spent a serious amount of time because I don't have any time!

All matter comes from a primary substance, the luminiferous ether

I don't think any actor can be happy with their performance. There's always something you wish you would have done or said differently.

The words you'll most regret Are the ones that are left unsaid.