So let's give another big tax cut to the super-rich. That'll teach bin Laden a lesson he won't soon forget.

Everything that ever has been always will be, and everything that ever will be always has been.

Any scientist who can't explain to an eight-year-old what he is doing is a charlatan.

Well, it's practically over, thank God - I'm 83, there won't be that much more of it to put up with I don't think!

Everything about life is a joke. Don't you know that?

This world is not a vale of sorrows if you will recognize discriminatingly what is truly excellent in it; and if you will avail yourself of it for mutual happiness and well-being. Therefore, let us explain as often as possible, and particularly at the departure of life, that we base our faith on firm foundations, on Truth for putting into action our ideas which do not depend on fables and ideas which Science has long ago proven to be false.

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.