As a boy, I was ashamed to wear glasses. I memorized the eye chart, and then on the test they asked essay questions.

Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.

I'm not anti-social. I'm just not social.

Life is unresolved, confusing, bewildering, puzzling, ambiguous. You don't really know what's going to happen. The future is uncertain for everybody.

I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, [and] receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.

This stuff tastes awful; I could have made a fortune selling it in my health-food store.

I should have known something was wrong with my first wife. When I brought her home to meet my parents, they approved of her.