One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

Give up trying to make me give up

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again...

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.