The happily married man with a large family is the test pilot for me.

Everybody pays lip service to the safety of the aeroplane, but nobody is prepared to pay for it.

Some games are fun even when you lose. Even when you know you're going to lose before you start. It's fun just playing them.

Maybe we've been too silly to deserve a world like this.

It's not the end of the world at all," he said. "It's only the end for us. The world will go on just the same, only we shan't be in it. I dare say it will get along all right without us.

You can only do a thing for the first time once, and that goes for falling in love.

To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities.