"It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education."

“The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.”

Source : Thomas Love Peacock (1875). “The Works of Thomas Love Peacock: Including His Novels, Poems, Fugitive Pieces, Criticisms, Etc”, p.208

“All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes reasonably easily. Plumbers don't get plumber's block, and doctors don't get doctor's block; why should writers be the only profession that gives a special name to the difficulty of working, and then expects sympathy for it?”

“We were postwar middle-class white kids living in the slipstream of the greatest per-capita rise in income in the history of Western civilization; we were 'teen-agers' - a term, coined in 1941, that was in common usage a decade later - a new, recognizable franchise. We had money, mobility, and problems all our own.”

Source : "Can’t Stop the Beat" by John Lahr, www.newyorker.com. October 26, 2009.

“I am interested in the paradox between identity and uniformity, in the power and vulnerability of each individual and each group. It is in this paradox that I try to visualize by concentrating on poses, attitudes, gestures, and gazes.”

“You saw him standing out there, and you knew you had a pretty damn good chance to win the baseball game.”

“The danger of computers becoming like humans is not as great as the danger of humans becoming like computers.”

Source : Hersfelder Zeitung. Nr. 212, 12, September 2005.

“The problem to me is violence. It's not cool to kill somebody or hurt people.”

“I don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.”