To have a high IQ, you tend to specialize, think deep thoughts. You avoid trivia.

Everything begins as an internal reality and then is externalized through perception.

You cannot describe the universe completely with any accuracy unless you're willing to admit that it's both physical and mental in nature.

There is nothing to be gained by pretending that academic involvement is necessary, or even always desirable, in the quest for truth and knowledge.

In my view, ideas and other intellectual productions are more interesting, more indicative of intelligence, and more productively debated than IQ alone.

There’s no logical connection between being smart and having money.

He would say her name over and over until it devolved into meaningless sounds - mah REI kuh, mah REI kuh - it became an entry in a dictionary of loneliness.

Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.

I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space.

It would be great if all the fast-food outlets, slaughterhouses, these laboratories and the banks who fund them exploded tomorrow.

To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.

Women will not talk about football unless one of them is in love with a football player, and then suddenly you discover that they know everything that is to be known about it.

Some moments are perfect, and then someone comes along and f*cks it up. Ain't it always the way.

How about we agree upon what our common American values are, which is lets make this a true land of opportunity.

Really, I'm just a simple girl from Jersey.

I'm a big baby. I'm not tough at all.