Don't be impatient with me. Bear in mind that I hop around among all of you big beasts like a harmless and helpless frog who is afraid of being squashed.

Einstein, my upset stomach hates your theory [of General Relativity]—it almost hates you yourself! How am I to' provide for my students? What am I to answer to the philosophers?!!

Physics is simple, but subtle.

No two electrons in the same state? That is why atoms are so unnecessarily big, and why metal and stone are so bulky.

You will get your difficulties with the point electron.

Give me great sinners to make great saints! They are glorious raw material for Grace to work upon and when you do get them saved, they will shake the very gates of Hell!

If we get used to life that is the crime.

Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts.

That's all they said was wrong with me?

I'm Santa Claus to these hoes without a reindeer.

When I die of heart failure the next time you frighten me like that, you can put that on my gravestone —‘I didn’t mean to startle her

I'm inclined to believe you need the psychiatrist.

Whatever obstacles appear in your path, put your head down and get past them. Those obstacles aren't real. They're just God's way of testing you. He's asking you, 'Do you want to make it or not?'

To make another person hold his tongue, be you first silent.

Acting from the appropriateness of the heart, we are freed from the neediness of the mind.