I might become an ascetic, live in India. A little rice is about the best I can do now.

Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous and symptomatic as we enter a curious new phase in our society.... To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.

Religions sprang up among men to deal with the sometimes terrifying aspects of existence, to make sense out of the senseless, to explain things we find inexplicable.

When you are brought up in a zoo, you know what's going on in the monkey house. You see a couple of monkeys loose and one is President and one is Vice President, you know it's trouble. Monkeys make trouble.

I was brought up to believe that what is out-of-doors should stay there and not be encouraged in any way.

Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.

All I want is that Americans still be able to read the alphabet in a hundred years. I am not very ambitious.