“We disapprove of parental hovering not because it won’t pay off later—it might; it does!—but because it’s obnoxious now.”
How to Raise a Prodigy, The New Yorker (2018)
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Philosophical Investigations (1953)
“Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.”
The Voluntary Movie Rating System (2004)
Context: I knew that the mix of new social currents, the irresistible force of creators determined to make "their" films and the possible intrusion of government into the movie arena demanded my immediate action.... My first move was to abolish the old and decaying Hays Production Code. I did that immediately. Then on November 1, 1968, we announced the birth of the new voluntary film rating system of the motion picture industry... the emergence of the voluntary rating system filled the vacuum provided by my dismantling of the Hays Production Code. The movie industry would no longer "approve or disapprove" the content of a film, but we would now see our primary task as giving advance cautionary warnings to parents so that parents could make the decision about the movie-going of their young children.
“Denial is a save now, pay later scheme.”
Source: The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
“Don't commit suicide, because you might change your mind two weeks later.”
A humorous personal mantra he used to combat his states of depression, published in Too Soon to Say Goodbye (2006)
Leaving Home (1995).
"Ben Watson interviews Frank Zappa", in MOJO magazine (October 1993).
“Pay attention to where you are going because without meaning you might get nowhere.”