“The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight.”

“All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.”

“Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.”

“She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.”

“Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.”

“A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.”

“Some people are different, and so are the rest of us.”