Marjorie Morningstar

by Herman Wouk

“Do you think an IQ is something real, like a nose? It’s a goddamn number dreamed up by goddamn psychologists, and all it proves is that farmers aren’t as smart as psychologists. If the farmers had enough time to waste to make up an IQ system, the psychologists would all come out morons and the farmers geniuses. Because they’d give a big credit for being able to grab a cow’s teat right, and nothing at all for counting the number of triangles in some goddamn meaningless diagram.”

“I’ve outlived Keats, Mozart, Marlowe, Alexander the Great, and Jesus. I’m satisfied.”