I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

The bat thought I was giving him the kiss of life!

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.