"There is no accountability in the public school system - except for coaches. You know what happens to a losing coach. You fire him. A losing teacher can go on losing for 30 years and then go to glory."

"We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another."

"Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty."

"Aunt Marion was right... Never marry a musician, and never answer the door."

"We'll do all right if we can capitalize on our mistakes."

"If the programmer can simulate a construct faster then the compiler can implement the construct itself, then the compiler writer has blown it badly."

"He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama."

"If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."

"A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing... It takes something from the world, and has something to give in return."

"I try to know what I need to know. I make sure to know what I want to know."

"The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side."

"Sin is geographical."