And now the announcement of Watson and Crick about DNA. This is for me the real proof of the existence of God.

I think that the sweetest freedom for a man on earth consists in being able to live, if he likes, without having the need to work.

Someone like myself, who claimed to be a real madman, living and organized with a Pythagorean precision.

I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone.

An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.

I was never capable of being an average pupil. I would either seem refractory to any teaching and give the impression of being completely dumb or I would fling myself on my work with a frenzy, a patience, and a willingness to learn that astonished everybody. But to awaken my zeal, it was necessary to offer me something I liked. Once my appetite had been whetted, I became ravenously hungry.

Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.