Football, fraternities and fun have no place in the university. They were introduced only to entertain those who shouldn't be in the university.

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.

...The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die.

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.

A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death

Whenever the urge to exercise comes upon me, I lie down for a while and it passes.

It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ideal of schools for everybody by having schools without education.