Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

My agent pointed out one day that I had been quoted by a columnist in some American newspaper, and he noted with some glee that they simply identified me by name without reminding people who I was, apparently in the clear expectation that their readers would know who I am.

Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be.

Apes had it worked out. No ape would philosophize, "The mountain is, and is not." They would think, "The banana is. I will eat the banana. There is no banana. I want another banana.

Rings try to find their way back to their owner. Someone ought to write a book about it.

Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.

The kind of accidents you prefer to call...accidents.