“When we studied them, excellent performers were rarely well rounded. On the contrary, they were sharp.”
“The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.”
“Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow, that we used to feel anxious about them, and visit them as if they were persons.”
“These were the sorts of notions that had been raised in all my classes, and we had chased them round and round like dogs maddened by their tails.”
“They were in performance. They were performing their marriage at me.”
“Beware of all politicians everywhere. They excelled at recess when they were in school but have excelled at little since.”