You can only be funny if you have matters of great importance on your mind.

What a fool I would have been to let self-respect interfere with my happiness!

The Earthlings behaved at all times as though there were a big eye in the sky—as though that big eye were ravenous for entertainment.

Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.

People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

In those days great teachers at Shortridge [High School] were celebrities. I would look up to them.

Two radical ideas have been introduced into human thought. One of them is that energy and matter are pretty much the same sort of stuff. That's Einstein. The other is that revenge is a bad idea. Revenge is an enormously popular idea but, of course, Jesus came along with the radical idea of forgiveness. If you're insulted, you have to square accounts. So this invention by Jesus is as radical as Einstein's.