There is, in fact, no reason to believe that any given natural phenomenon, however marvelous it may seem today, will remain forever inexplicable. Soon or late the laws governing the production of life itself will be discovered in the laboratory, and man may set up business as a creator on his own account. The thing, indeed, is not only conceivable; it is even highly probable.

Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.

A gentlemen is one who never strikes a woman without provocation.

The dying man doesn't struggle much and he isn't much afraid. As his alkalies give out he succumbs to a blest stupidity. His mindfogs. His will power vanishes. He submits decently. He scarcely gives a damn.

The physical business of writing is unpleasant to me, but the psychic satisfaction of discharging bad ideas in worse English makes me forget it.

The only really respectable Protestants are the fundamentalists. Unfortunately, they are also palpable idiots.

Every complex problem has a simple solution that doesn't work.