Irreverence is easy - whats hard is wit.

Apart from that Mrs Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?

I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.

I'm very proud of myself on my, whatever the literacy is, I'm pretentious, totally pretentious. I like to say 'hmm', for example.

I wasn't really a performer by temperament.

I always like to make explicit the fact that before I went off not too long ago to fight in the trenches, I was a mathematician by profession. I don't like people to get the idea that I have to do this for a living. I mean, it isn't as though I had to do this, you know, I could be making, oh, three thousand dollars a year just teaching.

The Lord's our shepherd, says the psalm. But just in case, we better get a bomb.