The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making.

Well the hours are good...' ... 'but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy.

Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots

My capacity for happiness," he added, "you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first

The seat received him in a loose and distant kind of way, like an aunt who disapproves of the last fifteen years of your life and will therefore furnish you with a basic sherry, but refuses to catch your eye.

My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.

Very strange people, physicists - in my experience the ones who aren't dead are in some way very ill.