"I think I am a verb."

"Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering."

"Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment."

"God is a verb."

"When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."

"Dare to be naive."

"PASSPORT, n. A document treacherously inflicted upon a citizen going abroad, exposing him as an alien and pointing him out for special reprobation and outrage."

"I don't understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses."

"I conceive the essential task of religion to be 'to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind'."

"There ought to be one day - just one - where there is open season on senators."

"What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real."

"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards."