Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard to be misinformed.

I had made her so unhappy that she had developed a sense of humor. [-Rabo Karabekian]

This is what i find most encouraging about the writing trades: they allow mediocre people who are patient and industrious to revise their stupidity, to edit themselves into something like intelligence. They also allow lunatics to seem saner than sane.

If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?

An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

But some of the nonsense was evil, since it concealed great crimes. For example, teachers of children in the United States of America wrote this date on blackboards again and again, and asked the children to memorize it with pride and joy: 1492. The teachers told the children that this was when their continent was discovered by human beings. Actually, millions of human beings were already living full and imaginative lives on the continent in 1492. That was simply the year in which sea pirates began to cheat and rob and kill them.

She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.