Our sun enlightens the planets that belong to him; why may not every fixed star also have planets to which they give light?

Women react differently: a French woman who sees herself betrayed by her husband will kill his mistress; an Italian will kill her husband; a Spaniard will kill both; and a German will kill herself.

Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.

Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I am. I am just nothing at all. Our world is terrifying in its insignificance.

To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.

A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.

A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.

It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.

Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and from this consequence another.

People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are quite surprised to have done them.

An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.

Find something about yourself to laugh about every day

Music is our bidet, man.

I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.

I was fifteen then, too young to fall in-love. Or maybe it is only then, with dew of childhood still in my eyes, that I was capable of such love. I will never know, of course.

When I was young I never believed that Australia was anything else except blessed. I thought it was a little dull when I was young, but that was 'cause I was a snob.

I am someone who hopes for the best and prepares for the worst.

Topology and number theory are my faves.

CNN said that after the war, there is a plan to divide Iraq into three parts: regular, premium and unleaded.

(although anyone with half a brain must surely be mired in existential gloom all the time)

I love playing a character that eats on television. It's so fun.