Naturally I don't believe books and I don't believe teachers, but I do believe-it's important for me to believe you [Gene]. Christ, I've got to believe you, at least. I know you better than anybody.

You had to be rude at least sometimes and edgy often to be credited with 'personality,' and without that accolade no one at Devon could be anyone. No one, with…

Your war memories will be with you forever, you'll be asked about them thousands of times after the war is over. People will get their respect for you from tha…

Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing among heroic men.

Neither acquiescence in skepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce. What it should produce is a belief that knowledge is attainable …

It's looking like he's omniscient or a mind reader.

Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.