“It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.”
“What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.”
“For the professors in the academy, for the humanities generally, misery is more amenable to analysis: happiness is a harder nut to crack.”
“Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.”
“I’ll leave the door cracked, because cracked is better than broken.”
“I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.”