Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.

There is no way a beautiful woman can live up to what she looks like for any appreciable length of time.

There is a strong feeling in the Middle West that the artist is not pulling his own weight no matter how hard he may work, that the other people are doing the real stuff.

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.

We're a terribly lonesome society. For all I know, all societies are. You can make a few new friends, that's all. You can't change history. History is happening to us now.

Teaching, may I say, is the noblest profession of all in a democracy.

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