"I have one of the original 'Ghostbusters' guns in my house."

“Everybody with a helmet on is in the mix.”

“Kindness is the only charm permitted to the aged; it is the coquetry of white hairs.”

“History matters. It matters whether we tell the truth about what happened centuries ago, and it matters whether we tell the truth about more recent history. It matters because if we can't we will never be able to face the present, guaranteeing that our future will be doomed.”

Source : Robert Jensen (2005). “The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege”, p.44, City Lights Books

“The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.”

“You don't go to a comedy and try to laugh. You laugh in spite of yourself. You don't just come on stage and cry. Something has pushed you to cry.”

Source : "A study in emotion" by Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2001.

“My general attitude toward life when I first get up is of deep suspicion, verging on hatred. ... I am simply basted together until after breakfast.”

“When abused children under court protection were studied in California and Massachusetts, it turned out that a disproportionate number of them were unattractive...abused kids had head and face proportions that made them look less infantile and cute.”

“Mathematics is a language. We want scientists to be able to read it, speak it, and write it. But we are are not training them to be grammarians.”