Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.