"For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights."

“The only book I ever read cover to cover was The Pete Rose Story. I read half of The Lou Gehrig Story and then made a book report on it for four straight years.”

“Architecture falls between art and airports. It's pragmatic-it helps you get from point A to point B. But it also works as art. It makes you think twice. It inspires you. It brings you back to yourself.”

“I am a complete jazz nerd.”

“A scientific discovery is also a religious discovery. There is no conflict between science and religion. Our knowledge of God is made larger with every discovery we make about the world.”

“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.

“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”

Source : 1959 'Reflection on the Atomic Bomb', collected in Robert A Goodwin (ed) Readings in World Politics (1959).

“My first trip to Canada has been great!”

“Well, the nice thing about animation, you don't even really have to account for yourself. All of the physical stuff that you work on as an actor, you just throw away.”