"I would guess that the typical profile of a 'follower' is someone who is young and who feels marginalised, empty and pointless. They don't have an inner life."

“When you find yourself on the Internet when you're supposed to be writing, you've already lost. It's even beyond procrastination when you end up on the Internet.”

“When the mother herself kills her son she goes against her own nature, against her own instinct. People talk about 'choice', but when a woman does that, when she destroys the life of her unborn child, then we have arrived at the limit. The level cannot go higher regarding evil.”

“Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I'm riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown traffic. But when I'm riding on secure protected lanes or on the paths that run along the Hudson or through Central Park - no, I don't wear the dreaded helmet then.”

“Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free; love me no more, but love my love of thee.”

“The president broke his bond with the public. Once that bond was broken, he no longer had the capacity to talk to the American public. State of the Union addresses? It didn't matter. Legislative initiatives? It didn't matter. P.R.? It didn't matter. Travel? It didn't matter.”

“Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.”

Source : "Honored literary scholar M.H. Abrams continues his labors (of love)" by Linda Grace-Kobas, news.cornell.edu. June 11, 1999.

“The incompetent quickly throws himself into another impressive enterprise in order to escape his responsibility from previous disaster.”

“If you find that you're spending almost all your time on theory, start turning some attention to practical things; it will improve your theories. If you find that you're spending almost all your time on practice, start turning some attention to theoretical things; it will improve your practice.”

Source : "Theory and Practice". Theoretical Computer Science, 1991.