"It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder."

"The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February."

"Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government-subsidized commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm."

"Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude."

"A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity."

"I'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie, never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers."

"But I have a driver, so I can return calls while I'm in the car."

"Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth."