“Football, fraternities, and fun have no place in the university. They were introduced only to entertain those who shouldn’t be in the university.”

“College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.”

“The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. ”

“Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining.”

“The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.”

“The Warrenite Christian is like a Star Wars geek who dressed up in costume and dearly wishes he lived the Star Wars universe. Sometimes such a fan will even spend as much time as he can in weekend costume conventions. For Warrenites, that's going to church.”

“She was completely inside herself, and I realized I'd never seem her that way- unknowable and unknown. Exactly the way I felt. It seemed confirmation we were made for each other, however painfully.”