"A generation which ignores history has no past and no future."

"There is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe."

"To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful."

"The Office does not sanctify the holder of it."

"A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits."

"Specialization is for insects."

"One must be a fox in order to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten off wolves."

"For one human being instinctively feels respect and love for another human being so long as he does not know him well enough to judge him; and that he does not, the craving he feels is evidence."

"The notion of picking one time of year to be decent to other people is obscene because it's actually validating the notion of being miserable wretches the rest of the year."

"I never said actors were cattle. I said that actors should be treated like cattle."

"There is no death. Only a change of worlds."

"For that which is born death is certain, and for the dead birth is certain. Therefore grieve not over that which is unavoidable."