"Sometimes when reading Goethe I have a paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny."

"Life is good, if you like that sort of thing."

"First Rule of Collaboration: If you can鈥檛 link to it, it didn鈥檛 happen."

"Gifts allow us to demonstrate exactly how little we know about a person. And nothing pisses a person off more than being shoved into the wrong pigeonhole."

"Laughter is the first evidence of freedom."

"[Jupiter's] satellites are invisible to the naked eye and therefore can have no influence on the Earth and therefore would be useless and therefore do not exist."

"But to my mind, though I am native here and to the manner born, it is a custom more honour'd in breach than the observance."

"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition."

"Man: the glory, jest, and riddle of the world."

"Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."

"All a man can betray is his conscience."

"I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue."