“Hey. I know it‟s cool to be late, but could we at least keep it to a fashionable ten minutes?‟-Lincoln”

“I am running a bit late. But all right, if I’m going to be late, I should be at least thirty minutes late. There’s something small-minded about running just five minutes late, don’t you think?”

“It is a well known fact that Abraham Lincoln spent much of his spare time visiting wounded soldiers in Union Army hospitals. I've spent thirty years teaching history at Columbia and I don't think I've spent more than fifteen minutes in the freshman dorm. Are we the ones keeping Lincoln's memory alive? Or are we burying it?”

“UFOs are back in the news, and it is high time we took a serious look at the phenomenon. (Actually the time is ten past eight, so not only are we a few minutes late but I'm hungry).”

“Books seem a little old-fashioned, but hey, I can do old-fashioned if it's good.”

“Cool people are only cool for the first thirty minutes of knowing them. After that, they just become annoying.”