Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.

On many American campuses the only qualification for admission was the ability actually to find the campus and then discover a parking space.

Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.

Here we have a saying: a good friend is someone who visits you when you are in prison. But a really good friend is someone who comes to hear your lectures.

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

If God had meant us to have group sex, I guess he'd have given us all more organs.

But you are involved in the world, and your actions have consequences for other people, and if you don't recognize that, then that's the supreme kind of cruelty. Everyone shares someone else's fate to some extent.