“I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to get rich. ”

“You have to know what you want to get it.”

“There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.”

“I always say that you cannot tell what a picture really is or what an object really is until you dust it every day and you cannot tell what a book is until you type it or proof-read it. It then does something to you that only reading it never can do.”

“The one thing that everybody wants is to be free...not to be managed, threatened, directed, restrained, obliged, fearful, administered, they want none of these things they all want to feel free, the word discipline, and forbidden and investigated and imprisoned brings horror and fear into all hearts, they do not want to be afraid not more than is necessary in the ordinary business of living where one has to earn one's living and has to fear want and disease and death....The only thing that any one wants now is to be free, to be let alone, to live their life as they can, but not to be watched, controlled and scared, no no, not.~ September, 1943”

“When I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, How can I combine career and family?”

“I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.”