My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it.

Don't be a pal to your son. Be his father. What child needs a 40-year-old for a friend?

The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference.

Today, at Harvard, any student with the currently fashionable color of skin is given rights denied to students of the currently unfashionable color.

There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.

Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.