One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

The essential feature, and necessity of life is to know reality, which means knowing God.

There's a large strain of irony in our human affairs... Interwoven with our affairs is this wonderful spirit of irony which prevents us from ever being utterly and irretrievably serious, from being unaware of the mysterious nature of our existence.

I accept the fact I am an unregenerate egghead.

It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.

Higher education is booming in the United States; the Gross National Mind is mounting along with the Gross National Product.

I beg you to believe that life is not a process, it's a drama