I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.

I didn't feel the need for anonymous affection, for people in the dark applauding. To me, it would be like writing a novel and then getting up every night and reading your novel. Everything I did is on the record and, if you want to hear it, just listen to the record.

But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer.

Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.

The reason most folksongs are so atrocious is that they were written by the people.

The Lord's our shepherd, says the psalm. But just in case, we better get a bomb.

As for language, almost everything goes now. That is not to say that verbal taboos have disappeared, but merely that they have shifted somewhat. In my youth, for example, there were certain words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can say them, but you can't say 'girl'.