I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself.

The piece of equipment I'm most found off is my telescope. The other night I had a superb view of the moon.

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

If man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere.

When beauty is universal, it loses its power to move the heart, and only its absence can produce any emotional effect.

The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

Look, whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There is always a last time for everything.) Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.