Quotes

• • 1.”“I quote another man’s saying; unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.””

• • 2.”“Young people of high school age can actually feel themselves changing. Progress is almost tangible. It’s exciting. It stimulates more progress. Nevertheless, growth is not constant and smooth. Erik Erikson quotes an aphorism to describe the formless forming of it. “I ain’t what I ought to be. I ain’t what I’m going to be, but I’m not what I was.”””

• • 3.”“Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say “I think,” “I am,” but quotes some saint or sage.””

• • 4.” I don’t sense that people are loving the adults the way they have learned to love kids, because the truth is, they’re not going to be cute in the same as kids are. And they shouldn’t have to be cute to deserve and merit our attention and support. “

• • 5.”And we debate whether it’s a – some woman’s right to tear you out of there a piece at a time! C’mon! You have a God-given right to live. And of all places, inside your mother – what in the world happened to us?

• • 6.” I kind of took you for granted. Your love for me was permanent. Why should I have worried about losing you?

• • 7.”The demons were protecting me. I had nothing to fear from the police.”

• • 8.” Everybody in the South loves the one closeted homosexual who’s married. It’s just too funny to not have in a movie about the South. It’s an epidemic.”

• • 9.”It seems not to occur to you that I might have had other very smart patients. The difference between them and me is that I’m a psychologist and they are not. I don’t have to be as smart as you to help you. I only have to be smart about one thing.”

• • 10.”My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere down the line I would do some writing.”

• • 11.”As Tolkien points out, the name is “a pleasantly ingenious pun,” referring to those who “dabble in ink.” It also suggests people “with vague or half-formed intimations and ideas. “

• • 12.”I find being on set very invigorating. I never have a problem with that component of it, no matter the situation”

• • 13.”Let me alone, and go in search of someone else.”

• 14.”There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a man because of his religious beliefs. Such a society is like a cockroach – it thrives in the dark. So do those who combine for such an end.”