There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?

Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.

People travel for the same reason as they collect works of art: because the best people do it.

One seventh of your life is spent on Monday.

If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it classified under the following three heads: Intelligence, Human; Intelligence, Animal; Intelligence, Military. My stepfather's a perfect specimen of Intelligence, Military.

Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.