Shortly thereafter, the waitress comes back and says that cherry pie is also an option; Morgenbesser says "In that case I'll have the blueberry pie."[19] Morgenbesser said the following of George Santayana: "There's a guy who asserted both p and not-p, and then drew out all the consequences..."[20] Interrogated by a student whether he agreed with Chairman Mao's view that a statement can be both true and false at the same time, Morgenbesser replied "Well, I do and I don't."[2][5] On being asked, as a potential juror, whether he had ever been treated unjustly or unfairly by the police, Morgenbesser responds "unjustly... but not unfairly."