Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!

Whenever I'm with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own company.

Whenever I'm out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think, I fling myself down on my back, throw my arms and legs out so that I look like an asterisk, and gaze at the sky.

Not very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death. To a professional soldier, oddly enough, death was life.

One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.

Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.

Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben, I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about. I always woke up before the plane landed.