“Taking a single letter from the alphaber," he said, "should make life simpler.""I don't see why. Take the F from life and you have lie. It's adding a letter to simple that makes it simpler. Taking a letter from hoarder makes it harder.”

“Hundreds of hysterical persons must confuse these phenomena with messages from the beyond and take their glory to the bishop rather than the eye doctor.”

“The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.”

“It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.”

“Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.”

“Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?”

“Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?”

“But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?”

“Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.”

“The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals.”

“I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.”