“I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.”

“Some people think nature is their God. I'd like to apologize to all those people for pissing on their religion.”

“She has to live, Eliott. I owe her a lifetime of apologies.”“Sometimes I think that’s all we owe our parents.”

“It is well for people who think, to change their minds ocasionally in order to keep them clean. ”

“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.”

“What it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them, keep them healthy, teach them how to care for themselves and others, allow them to develop in their own way among adults who are sane and responsibile, who know the value of the world and not its economic potential. It means art, it means time, it means all the invisibles never counted by the GDP and the census figures. It means knowing that life has an inside as well as an outside. And I think it means love.”