“We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence...on pain of liquidation”
“Not every musician should be obligated to reassure us that we are not zombies.”
“20 years ago teachers were very important but today every child has a lawyer, we are unable to fulfill our disciplinary obligations”
“Every five-year-old kid should have a pair of happy pajamas. (217)”
“It appears - because it has been the case for twenty years - that every problem is solvable...that no matter how badly the world economy slumps there is a pain-free way out of it. Once the realization dawns that there is not, and that the pain will be severe, the question is posed that has not really been posed for twenty years: who should feel it?”
“Perhaps it is our obligation to be noble before it is our obligation to be happy.”