"I told him last Monday that I felt the way things were going it was unlikely that I would be able to vote for the legislation."

“There is no single test or formula for producing moral progress anymore than there is for generating scientific truths. It is a process involving theoreticians, fact-gatherers, protestors, martyrs for the cause, authors of first- person narratives who change the way we see and evaluate the distribution of harms and benefits.”

“I think Jaws is one of those movies that, if it is on, I will watch it until it's finished.”

Source : "Paul F. Tompkins wants to ride a giant bison to work". Interview with AVC, www.avclub.com. February 4, 2016.

“Treat your audience like poets and geniuses and they’ll have the chance to become them.”

“Real magic is not about gaining power over others: it is about gaining power over yourself.”

“The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.”

“How I keep trying to force our story into a fairy tale, but from the beginning, it's been more like a nursery rhyme." "Bizarre and adorable?" "Just like you." "With rings in your pockets and bells on your toes" "Ooh, I should really invest in some toes bells.”

“The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.”

Source : H.L. Mencken (2013). “Notes On Democracy”, p.76, Knopf

“I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves.”

Source : Joyce Johnson (1999). “Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir”, p.58, Penguin