“I had always assumed the weekend was a holy tradition, respected by good people everywhere. Not so at Wexford.”

“I have always had the greatest respect for students. There is nothing I hate more than condescension—the attitude that they are inferior to you. I always assume they have good minds.”

“When people criticize me for not having any respect for existing structures and institutions, I protest. I say I give institutions and structures and traditions all the respect that I think they deserve. That's usually mighty little, but there are things that I do respect. They have to earn that respect. They have to earn it by serving people. They don't earn it just by age or legality or tradition.”

“It is also the pardonable vanity of lonely people everywhere to assume that they have no counterparts.”

“Everywhere I look, I see something holy.”

“If all good, respectable people had one face, I'd spit in it.”