"Our everyday language has become encumbered, Germanic, artificial, bureaucratic, inorganic. It may not be exaggerated to say that by now American writers face but two alternatives: write English, or write gobbledygook."

-- John Lukacs

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“The most important domestic challenge facing the U.S. at the close of the twentieth century is the re-creation of fatherhood as avital social role for men. At stake is nothing less than the success of the American experiment. For unless we reverse the trend of fatherlessness, no other set of accomplishments--not economic growth or prison construction or welfare reform or better schools--will succeed in arresting the decline of child well-being and the spread of male violence. To tolerate the trend of fatherlessness is to accept the inevitability of continued social recession.”
“I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.”

Source : "Ted McGinley talks Happy Days, The West Wing, and being the "patron saint" of jumping the shark". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. May 15, 2012.
“I spent the next fifteen minutes convincing a crying werewolf that I wasnâ€™t going to hurt her. My life was getting too strange, even for me.”
“The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.”
“I had begun to think my ripening body would wither untasted on the vine.”
“I am a practicing Buddhist. I have been for 25 years.”
“Rosie is a Hall of Fame player, and I wouldn't be in the Hall of Fame if it weren't for him.”
“Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal element has made writing and walking resemble each other.”

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