"In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea."

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

"Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast."

"He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which."

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

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

"Laughing deeply is living deeply."

"Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it."

"To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody."

"One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it."

"It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them."

"The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."