For us humans, everything is permanent - until it changes, as we are immortal until we die

Like a prisoner awaiting his release, like a schoolboy when the end of term is near, like a migrant bird ready to fly south ... I long to be gone.

The Sputnik is just to me like a firework, a rocket, a new invention.

I think that President [Dwight] Eisenhower was... did the most marvelous job in the war, not really a military job: a public relations job, and it was essential that there should be a public relations job done in the post that he had.

Tranquilizers to overcome angst, pep pills to wake us up, life pills to ensure blissful sterility. I will lift up my ears unto the pills whence cometh my help.

I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation.

Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.