"There are very few people who don't become more interesting when they stop talking."

"As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention."

"Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings."

"In Washington, it's dog eat dog. In academia, it's exactly the opposite."

"Some things are so completely ludicrous that a man must laugh or die. To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!"

"It's not what you want in this life, it's what you get that you have to do with."

"I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence."

"Render therefore to all their dues."

"And come he slow, or come he fast, It is but death who comes at last."

"I'll probably never have children because I don't believe in touching people for any reason."

"Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you."

"The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing."