"Never trust a man who wears a tie."

"Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee."

"The curse of modernity is that we are increasingly populated by a class of people who are better at explaining than understanding, or better at explaining than doing."

"You can tell how uninteresting a person is by asking him whom he finds interesting."

"I wonder if anyone ever measured the time it takes, at a party, before a mildly successful stranger who went to Harvard makes others aware of it."