Here (in Thomas Aquinas) is the mind that prepared the way for the scientific and industrial revolutions. Here is the mind that was Catholic enough to embrace any good idea, from wherever it came.
Erasmus’s Bible-saturated mind. His was a mind too broad for fundamentalism, which rejects reason, and too honest for intellectualism, which rejects revelation.
There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception.
One can’t prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person.
I had a dream about you. You were writing a book on how to write a book, and I was reading a book on how to read a book. You thought we were meant to be together, and I thought we were meant to be in a library.
Books can also provoke emotions. And emotions sometimes are even more troublesome than ideas. Emotions have led people to do all sorts of things they later regret-like, oh, throwing a book at someone else.
I think serious readers of books are 5% of the population. If there are good TV shows or a World Cup or anything, that 5% will keep on reading books very seriously, enthusiastically. And if a society banned books, they would go into the forest and re...
I used to comfort myself with the idea of a book with serrated, detachable pages, so that you could read the thing the way it came and then shuffle the pages, like a giant deck of cards, and read the book in an entirely different order. It would be a...
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
Endings are the embryos of new beginnings.
There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
New York City has fantastic restaurants and, unlike London, a lot of the best restaurants are relatively cheap.
I like doing the crossword puzzle in the New York Times, not watching E! on TV.
Never mind the End is the Beginning of the new season. Be ready to enter your new season
I couldn't be more excited to return to the ING New York City Marathon.
But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973.
But me contradicting a news story is not going to make my words fact. It will just create a new news story.
I'm someone who is open-minded to new experiences because they teach you new things.
I'm identified as a New York actor, I sound like I'm from New York, and I couldn't be more proud of it.
I'm trying to change the culture in New York City; that's hard enough!
