A society is only as healthy as its ideas are humane.

I'm mad about being old and I'm mad about being American. Apart from that, OK.

There was a time when I could vote for economic justice, and I can't anymore.

I say the same thing about the death of James Wait. "Oh, well -- he wasn't going to write the Beethoven's Ninth Symphony anyway.

Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.

But there’s a reason we recognize Hamlet as a masterpiece: it’s that Shakespeare told us the truth, and people so rarely tell us the truth in this rise and fall here [indicates blackboard]. The truth is, we know so little about life, we don’t really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.

Man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing.