The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.

An empty man is full of himself.

Only a fool would leave the enjoyment of rainbows to the opticians. Or give the science of optics the last word on the matter.

Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking; namely, life.

Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful.

Girls: I never wanted them all. Just all the ones I wanted.

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.