"A good book gets better on the second reading. A great book on the third. Any book not worth rereading isn't worth reading."

"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."

"I want you to write down that I started wearing them [Steve Jobs turtlenecks] before he did. I want that to be known."

"Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love."

"If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry."