"Fixed ideas are like a cramp in the foot - the best remedy against it is to tread on it."

"I wanted to do something nice so I bought my mother-in- law a chair. Now they won't let me plug it in."

"Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind."

"Compromise? That's when you give away half the things you want. That's when you give the other guy half of what's rightfully yours."

"There is no eraser on the end of a scalpel."

"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry."

"An intelligence service is, in fact, a stupidity service."

"Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else."

"Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled."

"You can delegate authority, but not responsibility."