"Oh! that fear When the heart longs to know, what it is death to hear."

“Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.”

Source : "Peace, war, economy dominate graduation speeches" by Patricia McCormack, www.upi.com. May 29, 1982.

“No matter how deep a study you make. What you really have to rely on is your own intuition and when it comes down to it, you really don't know what's going to happen until you do it.”

Source : Cherry blossoms and robotics, 1983.

“I don't believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It's on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it's supposed to give you a parking space. It's worked so far.”

“I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.”

“I can't really fight.”

“I believe the Times is a great newspaper, but a profoundly fallible one.”

Source : "It's curtains for Okrent". Interview with Steve Kettmann, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2005.

“From the solitude of the wood, (Man) has passed to the more dreadful solitude of the heart.”

“If ever we are constrained to lift the hatchet against any tribe, we will never lay it down till that tribe is exterminated, or driven beyond the Mississippi... in war, they will kill some of us; we shall destroy them all.”