On Thanksgiving Day, all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment -- half- time.

Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.

Gregory Bateson

You know, I don't really do that much looking inside me when I'm working on a project. Whatever I am becomes what that film is. But I change you change.

Steven Spielberg

To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.

Paul R. Ehrlich

The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless assaults on Israel, even as the surrounding Arab powers distract the Arab masses with the red herring of Israel while retarding their countries with their repression and corruption.

Conrad Black

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

W. H. Auden

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

Sir Winston Churchill

Fact and fiction are different truths.

Patricia MacLachlan

Not even old age knows how to love death.

Sophocles

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

George Bernard Shaw

If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.

Wally Lamb

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Albert Einstein