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.

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.

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.

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.