Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction.

The criminal misuse of time was pointing out the mistakes. Catching them―noticing them―that was essential. If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement. The part of the man's statement that was true, however, was about the uselessness of speaking up. If I know that the teacher is wrong, and say nothing, then I remain the only one who knows, and that gives me an advantage over those who believe the teacher.

There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.

There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.

Satanic Verses is a despicable book that could not have been written by a person who wished to behave decently and responsibly.

This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.

We thought we were the only thinking beings in the universe, until we met you, but never did we dream that thought could arise from the lonely animals who cannot dream each other's dreams