Conquered people tend to be witty.

With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence.

The two real problems in life are boredom and death.

I don't know exactly how it's done. I let it alone a good deal.

Unfortunately for the betterment of mankind it is not always the fair-minded who are in the right.

I immersed myself in The Periodic Table gladly and gratefully. There is nothing superfluous here, everything this book contains is essential. It is wonderful pure, and beautifully translated...I was deeply impressed.

I seem to have the blind self-acceptance of the eccentric who can't conceive that his eccentricities are not clearly understood.