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

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.

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

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.

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.

They gave me a thousand reasons to leave you, but I found a thousand and one reasons to be with you.

The sword of life is the truth of salvation.

But I was also told to hold doors for women and children, to shake hands with a firm grip, to remember people's names, and to always give the customer a little more than expected.

I'm really just playing when I write. I feel like I'm a kid again. I want my characters to do and say things like when I played with dolls!

Perhaps middle age is or should be a period of shedding shells the shell of ambition the shell of material accumulations and possessions the shell of the ego.

With docs, there's often a very direct communication between the filmmaker and the audience. With narrative movies, we leave it a little bit more open.

I used to sing on the school bus everyday.

Any time there is a lot of money or ego involved, people tend to behave badly.

Most customers, by the time the musicians reach the second set, are to some extent inebriated. They don't care what you play anyway.

I saw not till now what sin brings with it - that we must tread others underfoot.