Is world peace possible or is the human race too innately aggressive? For instance: Have you ever seen women at a sample sale?

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

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.

It's very hard to keep your spirits up. You've got to keep selling yourself a bill of goods, and some people are better at lying to themselves than others. If you face reality too much, it kills you.... you've got to find an answer to the question: Why go on?

You know how you're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's real difficult in life

I'm giving [my analyst] one more year--then I'm going to Lourdes.

If you pursue the other woman, it's a losing situation and it's not good for your relationship or your marriage. If your marriage is open and you're allowed to, that's no good either. There's no way, really in the end, to be happy unless you get very lucky.