Who you are and who you love should never be a fireable offense
It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.
The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.
If I had my life to live over, I would try to make more mistakes. I would relax. I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I know of very few things that I would take seriously. I would be less hygienic. I would go more places. I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. I would eat more ice cream and less spinach. I would have more actual troubles and fewer imaginary troubles.
Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.
There is something distinctive about living in New York; over eight million other people are doing it.
There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.
There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement.
Science is what scientists do, not what nonscientists think they do or ought to be doing. Wetenschap is wat wetenschappers doen.
In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen as I do now.
Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.