Quotes

“After an access cover has been secured by 16 hold-down screws, it will be discovered that the gasket has been omitted.”

“The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.”

“There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.”

“The past is not dead. In fact, it’s not even past.”

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

“No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up.”

“As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.”

“Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.”

“I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.”

“Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.”

“What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.”

“Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.”