I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas.

We old roosters must be cautious. Don't try to outwit your arteries.

English life, while very pleasant, is rather bland. I expected kindness and gentility and I found it, but there is such a thing as too much couth.

Fate was dealing from the bottom of the deck.

Do you know anything at all that nobody else knows or, for that matter, gives a damn about? If you do, then sit tight, because one of these days you're going to Hollywood as a technical supervisor on a million dollar movie.

The dubious privilege of a freelance writer is he’s given the freedom to starve anywhere.

I guess I'm just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation's laws.