Notable Quotables,

"Can we leave the lights on? I'm intent on keeping you awake."

Howard C. Berg, professor of cellular and developmental biology, before beginning his lecture on bacteria movement.

"John Wayne gave me a silver cigarette lighter during the Vietnam War that said 'Fuck Communism' on it. I didn't know how to do that. I still don't."

"The men on the Mayflower decided to send the women on shore first to do the laundry."

Congressman Patricia N. Schroeder (D-Colo.), a 1964 Law School graduate, at a symposium.

"I love him, and you don't."

A young girl elbowing her way through the press corps to see Prince Charles at Burberry's in Boston.

"It's a little slow, but Schenectady, N.Y. is a slow place."

Loeb University Professor Oscar Handlin on an anecdote about Ben Franklin that was published in a Schenectady, N.Y. newspaper 40 years after the American Revolution.

"There are some of us who are unimpressed and angry at the form the celebration has taken."

Professor of Fine Arts T.J. Clark before his speech at a symposium.