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"Are these good reasons for worrying about the apparent contradiction? Should either make us feel the need of an explanation?"

"Wittgenstein, Elizabeth Taylor, Bertrand Russell, Thomas Merton, Yogi Berra, Allen Ginsberg, Harry Wolfson, Thoreau, Casey Stengel, The Lubavitcher Rebbe, Picasso, Moses, Einstein, Hugh Hefner, Socrat…"

"The ban against me isn’t personal, it’s targeting an entire generation."

"Dodgson's Dodges" by Thomas Christensen"

"Do you know why my father is buried under a little mound in the shade of some old oak trees, there in wood? It is because that spot conjured up for him a childhood memory particularly dear to his hear…"

"The Inquisitor is the forgiving father, the scientific materialist, and the social engineer. He is the most compassionate, and honest, of politicians; he takes on great burdens of responsibility in or…"

"My father acted at all times and in all aspects of his life from his identity as an artist. He had no other. He cooked with the extravagant generosity and adventurousness of an artist. He parented as …"

"Noah is my best friend. We're the same age. We do everything together. We go to Six Flags. We have play dates. I mean, we are children."

"Marriage was the best business deal I ever made. After that, Jesus of Nazareth and The Muppets."

"I couldn't get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard sun showing up the dirtiness on the roof tops. And after a time, even at night, the feeling of God didn'…"

"Our fathers, in New England, in the Middle Colonies, and in the South, brought African slaves to America for reasons of their own, which it is impossible to justify, and useless now to censure. The Go…"

"Fear Allah and treat your children fairly ."

"My daughter wanted a new pair of trainers. I told her "You're eleven, make your own!"

"Vietnam is the dead albatross around Johnson's neck that may pull him down."

"Yoko Ono's Snow review by Tom Johnson"

"It is clear that a retreat from the social, based largely on the experience of defeat and consequent resignation, promotes the personal as the only possible terrain of authenticity."

"...OH, COME ON! How was I supposed to do that?! You son of a bitch!"

"My wife constantly tells me to stop looking for him, because he doesn't exist."

"Adams Family Correspondence. Cambridge: Harvard University Press"

"Now about your family. Do you know that since your daughter came out everyone has been enraptured by her? They say she is amazingly beautiful."