"Expect the worst and you won't be disappointed."

"One of the advantages of living alone is that you don't have to wake up in the arms of a loved one."

"A technique succeeds in mathematical physics, not by a clever trick, or a happy accident, but because it expresses some aspect of a physical truth."

"Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses."

"In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less."

"Boys frustrate me. I hate all their indirect messages, I hate game playing. Do you like me or don't you? Just tell me so I can get over you."

"Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him."

"Equal participants doing similar things will generate lots of new ideas."

"The dew has fallen with a particularly sickening thud this morning."

"SYLLOGISM, n. A logical formula consisting of a major and a minor assumption and an inconsequent. (See LOGIC.)"

"He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold."

"I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year.... It's very character-building."