We used to have lots of questions to which there were no answers. Now, with the computer, there are lots of answers to which we haven't thought up questions.

Sometimes I wish I could just fall in love. Then, at least you know who your opponent is.

I had started by imitating a parrot, which is unusual, in that a parrot is supposed to imitate you. By taking the initiative you allow the parrot no alternative but to be itself, which proves again that attack is often the best defence.

What is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn?

I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.

I can never forgive God for having invented the French

The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.