“Very often among a certain highly intelligent type of people, quite paradoxical ideas will establish themselves. But they have suffered so much in their lives for these ideas, and have paid so high a price for them that it becomes very painful, indeed almost impossible, for them to part with them.”

“Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.”

“Heroes, notwithstanding the high ideas which, by the means of flatterers, they may entertain of themselves, or the world may conceive of them, have certainly more of mortal than divine about them.”

“The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity. ”

“Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.”

“She almost reminds the engineer of certain types in high school whom everyone adored because you sensed it made no difference to them whether you adored them.”