“There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.”

“Whenever there's something wrong with your writing, suspect that there's something wrong with your thinking.”

“Something about guys showing their soft side always made me feel all sigh-worthy.”

“No matter how good you are at something there's always about a million people better than you.”

“In Catholic countries we saw (and sometimes still see) a large number of illiterates side by side with an intellectual élite of high standards. The Protestant goal of education is usually one of good averages- the optimum for a democracy. In democracies there will always be resentment and contempt for the “highbrow” and the illiterate, the intellectual and the “peasant.”

“I don't know, there's something about you. Say there's an hourglass: the sand's about to run out. Someone like you can always be counted on to turn the thing over.”