“Use condoms; it’s wise not to gamble with your children's future.”

“When it’s not enough to veto your children’s tendencies, you must in vitro them.”

“One never owns a book. It sits on your shelf in a fine edition like a piece of furniture, and you are its admiring ward until it flies off from you in a time of financial hardship. If it is a tattered paperback, she is your casual mistress you use a few times. If you have read it a hundred times then it is your wife, and a source of infinite mystery.”

“Embarrassing facts, those would really help our children remember their classroom lessons better.”

“Aping the lower class will only lead to fatherless children, unusable muscles, and the fear of tomorrow’s sobriety.”

“Children should have a balanced diet. They should only consume sugar, salt, and fat in equal quantities.”

“I hope people of the future will remember my books for being burned, and I challenge an elite few to imagine the embers of the last copy.”