"Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word 'academic' in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation."

"Philip Roth is a good writer, but I wouldn't want to shake hands with him."

"I have found that it don't really matter if you're brought up fine or rough, but that it helps to have someone to spill your sorrows to."

"'Attention, attention, there are monkey-boys in the complex."

"There's something almost perfect in the ugly duckling syndrome. Because a sensitivity is tattooed on a part of you no one else can see but can somehow guess is there."

"I am into parallel monogamy."

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

"Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the non-existence of Zeus or Thor - but they have few followers now."

"The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way."

"Be thou faithful unto death."

"Are you to pay for all you have with all you are?"

"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination. What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth - whether it existed before or not."