“Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.”

“In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.”

“The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.”

“It’s not enough to bash in heads. You’ve got to bash in minds.”

“Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”

“Work is the curse of the drinking classes.”

“I bet the human brain is a kludge.”

“The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.”

“The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.”

“Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?”