The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read about great successes, since even for middle-class and upper-class white people, in my experience, failure is the norm.

If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice.

The New York Daily News suggested that my biggest war crime was not killing myself like a gentleman. Presumably Hitler was a gentleman.

I think that scientific persons of the future will scoff at scientific persons of the present. They will scoff because scientific persons of the present thought so many important things were superstitious.

Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise.

Those who live by electronics die by electronics. Sic semper tyrannis.

People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.