There is only one object on earth that frightens me: a physicist working on a new trick.
[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.
The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off
Subtlety chases the obvious up a never-ending spiral and never quite catches it.
Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.
If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.