“Oscar Madison: Your name is Homer? [Shocked upon hearing Speed's real name from the guard] Speed: [Sarcastically] What? You think when I was born my parents named me SPEED?”— Perry Grant, Dick Bensfield, Oscar Madison, Jack Klugman, imdb.com
“I think I can safely say that the highlight of the relationship was the eight or so seconds it took him to walk through my front door for the first time and behold the awesomeness of my taste and self-sufficiency (and he liked the place; he really, really liked it!). In one perfect moment, the house…”— Meghan Daum, amazon.com
“Homer invokes the gods in order to account for the observation that a central form of human excellence must be drawn from without. A god, in Homer’s terminology, is a mood that attunes us to what matters most in a situation, allowing us to respond appropriately without thinking.”— Hubert Dreyfus, amazon.com