There is only one object on earth that frightens me: a physicist working on a new trick.
Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.
[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.
A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.
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.
The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off