That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.

What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.

I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.