"I hope all of you are going to fill out your census form when it comes in the mail next month. If you don't return the form the area you live in might get less government money and you wouldn't want that to happen, would you."

"When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper."

"We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers."

"People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe."

"But you cannot expect every writer to dwell on human suffering. I think my books do deal with grave issues. People who say they are too positive probably haven't read them."

"America's biggest export is media and I think that's a positive thing."

"As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss."

"I don't think we should speak so much. What if we were singing a song? We split, whilst singing."