"Life? Don't talk to me about life!"

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be."

"Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all."

"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space."

"Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart."

"Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of."

"Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content."

"Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly."

"To get the attention of a large animal, be it an elephant or a bureaucracy, it helps to know what part of it feels pain. Be very sure, though, that you want its full attention."

"I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial."

"An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's."

"He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen and hearten those Europeans upon whom the long dark night of tyranny had descended."