Now virtue may not always be its own reward, but in any case it is not usually bought and paid for at market rates.

Knowledge is a free good. The biggest cost in its transmission is not in the production or distribution of knowledge, but in its assimilation. This is something that all teachers know.

Vast ills have followed a belief in certainty.

Unsolved problems, that's one of the great signs of progress in my opinion.

The world is changing. We're not really proceeding on a stationary basis.

One thing I learned from meteorology is that being an actual science was no guarantee of exactness.

Education is still, in spite of private education, a state matter.

The MD is well aware that the forecasts are no good but he needs them for planning purposes.

My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution and the financial sacrifices of my parents.

Usefulness depends on tractability.

Venture capital has done much more, I think, to improve efficiency than anything.

I would never dream of killing an excellent tailor, not even to keep a secret that could endanger my life.

The new is not revealed to those whose eyes are fastened in worship upon the old.

Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it.

Deep inside, I am desperate to do comedy.

The power of laughter & love would beat out the power of fear every time.

I think that writers have natural canvases, and my canvas, even in short stories, often seems to be the scope of a life.

After living with Richard, I discovered that men are only good at cleaning stuff they can hose down.

The audiences like to think that satire is doing something. But, in fact, it is mostly to leave themselves satisfied. Satisfied rather than angry, which is what they should be.

The mark of a good party is that you wake up the next morning wanting to change your name and start a new life in a different city.

She was like a crinkled poppy; with the desire to drink dry dust.