"Don't fight with the pillow, but lay down your head And kick every worriment out of the bed."

“All significant breakthroughs are break -“withs” old ways of thinking.”

“Maybe she'd seen too many Japanese horror movies, and maybe it was just a tingle of warning from generations of superstitious ancestors, but suddenly she knew that what Alyssa wanted was not to be saved, but for Shane to join her. In death.”

“I don't think I gain anything by seeing myself.”

“Many blue-collar families struggling to pay rent would be happy to skip paying optional union dues.”

“Normally, I love to go to the movies and when I see a character portrayed by different actors at different ages, it kind of pops a little bit for me. It brings me out of the movie experience. Now we have the technology to cure that.”

“People underestimate me, but I've always been a stretch runner.”

“More fundamentally, however, the answer to petitioners' objection is that there can be no impairment of executive power, whether on the state or federal level, where actions pursuant to that power are impermissible under the Constitution. Where there is no power, there can be no impairment of power.”

“Mass communication communicates massively: its language lacks precise articulation and avoids demanding terms; it argues for the kind of behavior in life which will make a "good program": ethic equals showbiz.”