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.

The most important words in the English language are not 'I love you' but 'it's benign.'

I read in self-defense.

I don't like theatrical actors and actresses. I like people that talk like real human beings.

Enthusiasm is a good engine, but it needs intelligence for a driver.

And Nietzche, with his theory of eternal recurrence. He said that the life we lived we're going to live over again the exact same way for eternity. Great. That means I'll have to sit through the Ice Capades again.

Am I my brother's keeper? Yes. Interestingly, in my case, I share that honor with the Prospect Park Zoo.