The federal [bank deposit] insurance scheme has worked up to now simply and solely because there have been very few bank failures. The next time we have a pestilence of them it will come to grief quickly enough, and if the good banks escape ruin with the bad ones it will be only because the taxpayer foots the bill.

What ails the truth is that it is mainly uncomfortable, and often dull. The human mind seeks something more amusing, and more caressing.

[Science] must be amoral by its very nature: The minute it begins separating facts into the two categories of good ones and bad ones it ceases to be science and becomes a mere nuisance, like theology.

Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.

New York: A third-rate Babylon.

[A formula for answering controversial letters -- without even reading the letters:] Dear Sir (or Madame): You may be right.

All I ask is equal freedom. When it is denied, as it always is, I take it anyhow.