I’ve never wanted to meet anyone I’ve been introduced to. I want to meet all the other people.

I find I always have to write something on a steamed mirror.

A rowdy bunch on the whole, they were most of them so violently individualistic as to be practically interchangeable.

Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.

I hate champagne more than anything in the world next to Seven-Up.

It's amazing how right you can be about a person you don't know; it's only the people you do know who confuse you.

I always expect people to behave much better than I do. When they actually behave worse, I am frankly incredulous.

That's my answer to the question what is your strongest emotion, if you ever want to ask me: Curiosity, old bean. Curiosity every time.

What’s the use of remembering anything? If it was unpleasant it was unpleasant and if it was pleasant it’s over.

... I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life.

The world is wide, wide, wide, and I am young, young, young, and we’re all going to live forever!

The purpose of influence is to "speak up for those who have no influence." (Pr.31:8) It's not about you.

A history of literature, unlike history as such, ought to list only victories, for its defeats are no victory for anyone.

A mind with questions is a mind open to understanding.

Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing.

The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

He who is well acquainted with the text of scripture, is a distinguished theologian. For a Bible passage or text is of more value than the comments of four authors.

Let Ra grant to me a view of the Disk (the Sun), and a sight of Ah (the Moon) unfailingly each day. Let my Ba-soul come forth to walk about hither and thither and whithersoever it pleaseth.

I think PCs are going to be like trucks. Less people will need them. And this is going to make some people uneasy.