"Voltaire, I'm so high right now."
Source: Unfamiliar Fishes by
Sarah Vowell
"Yale was founded by finicky Protestants who worried that the Puritans at Harvard weren'
t puritanical enough. But the Revolutionary
War brought the Age of Reason to New Haven, and (Timothy) Dwight (Jonathan Edwards' grandson) inherited a student body full of deist beatniks on the Enlightenment highway to
hell, which is to say,
France. This generation did not just read Voltaire - they literally addressed each other as 'Voltaire' the way kids today call one another dude. Like, 'Voltaire, I'm so high right now.'"