“You don't get to be a respected intellectual by uttering truisms in monosyllables.”
“You don't have to speak monosyllables to be simple. What we mean by simple is finding the core of the idea.”
“Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?”
“You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.”
“cliches are truisms and all truisms are true”
“You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending.”