“We cleave to the past too much in Germany. All of our German art is too bogged down in the conventional... I think more highly of a free person who consciously puts convention aside.”

“We are grown stiff with the ramrod of convention down our backs.”

“Journalism may not dare too much. It can be gently humorous and ironic, very lightly touched by idiosyncrasy, but it must not repel readers by digging too deeply. This is especially true of its approach to language: the conventions are not questioned. The questioning of linguistic conventions is one of the main duties of what we call literature.”

“Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining.”

“There's definitely a rule in the Convention against humiliating prisoners and I'd have to see exactly the interview to see whether that in itself violated the Convention, but the Convention is very clear that prisoners have got to be treated properly. We are treating the Iraqi prisoners extremely well. In fact I think they get good food and shelter and they're free from the horrible commanders they used to work for. I think most of them are much happier, frankly.”

“There are those who propose that both sides remove all their forces from Germany. That's a silly idea. The Germans hate us; we couldn't think of removing our forces from Germany.”

“But far more numerous was the herd of such,
Who think too little, and who talk too much.”

“I think there's too much mult-tasking going on. I think people need to quiet down and focus and be still more.”

“This business of seeing divine interconnected beauty in people has been happening more and more lately, and I put it down to meditating too much.”

“The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking..”