She [Marilyn Monroe] was good at being inarticulately abstracted for the same reason that midgets are good at being short.

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

Whoever called snooker "chess with balls" was rude, but right.

All honest labor becomes easy; it only becomes hard when done with unwillingness.

Reading and writing... are exciting. The most exciting things I can think of. And now, as I reflect... I have to say that I've been lucky in that I'm amused by what I do - sufficiently amused.

My wife spoke perfect Italian and she was very beautiful and very suave Italian men were crowding around her, talking all the time and if I was to even understand what was going on, I had to learn the language fast.

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.