Self-pity” is just sadness, I think, in the pejorative.

My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind—like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing.

My capacity for having a good time exists. It surfaces, however, on odd occasions.

The style of flirtation specific to classrooms was of service to the students all their lives.

People who are less happy, I find, are always consoling those who are more.

They are but beggars that can count their worth.

I don't know what happens to you after you die. I'm not banking on there being, like, a heaven.

Now, occasionally I will still have that quarter pounder because I love fast food, but you have to keep it to a minimum.

Measures of sterilization should, in my opinion, be very definitely confined to persons who are mentally defective

The desire to impress is an efficient means of bringing out one’s least impressive qualities.

The fact of the matter is, if you have to have a process, I think, to figure out how to make everything work together, you just don't get that. But maybe there's a way to do it.

All attributes ascribed to God are attributes of His acts, and do not imply that God has any qualities.

I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other.

A photograph has picked up a fact of life, and that fact will live forever.

California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that.