On the principle laid down by Gilbert and Sullivan that when everybody is somebody, nobody is anybody; if everybody is abnormal, we don't need to worry about anybody.

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault.

Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.

It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things.

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.