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.

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.

We cannot be a source for strength unless we nurture our own strength.

Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal.

The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.

I don't really dissect comedy. Nothing kills off humor more than overanalyzing it.

Bee not a Baker, if your head be of butter.

Shame greatly hurts or greatly helps mankind.

Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness.

Certainly I'm angry at the way Indians have been treated and continue to be treated. But I don't think it's a helpless emotion.

Over the tea-cups and in the square the tongue has its desire; Still waters run deep, my dear, there's never smoke without fire.

Forestry is the work of nation builders.