“Marriage: a hopeful, generous, infinitely kind gamble taken by two people who don’t know yet who they are or who the other might be, binding themselves to a future they cannot conceive of and have carefully omitted to investigate.”

“The point is professionalization. Academics-in-training worry about whether they are yet, can ever be, or even want to be professional intellectuals of the kind they are changing themselves into. Second or third or fourth year graduate students have not taken binding vows. They may have second thoughts. Nor have they been finally chosen. They might flunk out. Their committee might turn their theses down. Who knows what might happen?”

“There are two kinds of people in this world : those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better.”

“There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.”

“There's two kinds of people in the world, the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.”

“My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously and those who don’t have the guts to sometimes say: I don’t know….”

“Young people, who are beginners in everything, cannot yet know love: they have to learn it.”

“There are two kinds of people in this world. The kind who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don't.”

“Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That's right. Others come in to govern for them”

“A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.”