“I can't afford to despise anything. An absurdity may be the starting-point of the most dangerous complications.”

“What's the point of holding on if I can't save the ones that I can't afford to lose?”

“Will any man despise me? Let him see to it. But I will see to it that I may not be found doing or saying anything that deserves to be despised.”

“Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard to be misinformed.”

“Knowledge from experience: the heart goes blind because the need is stronger than anything else. Your ego is blind, your id is eager. It will get to the point of smashing everything. When there is a danger from outside, you bolt, but when the danger comes from inside, how can you bolt? The danger from inside is that complicated thing, the love of the wolf, the complicity that attaches us to that which threatens us.”

“The most dangerous aspect of religion is its tendency to glorify the absurd and justify the abhorrent.”