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"It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it."
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"He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style."

"My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it."

"Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of them."

"The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds."

"I think anyone who has an opinion, and voices it, will offend someone."

"Also, when I didn't like something, I could keep my opinion to myself."

"I am basically a complainer and all the grounds for complaint have been swept out from under me."
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