“We all believe silly things. What matters is how silly and how many.”

“It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.”

“What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instincts of beasts.”

“Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”

“What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.”

“Oh, I cannot tell you how the notion of eternity bores me—not to mention all the silly stories we are always making up to render the idea palatable!”

“There are lots of things we never understand, no matter how many years we put on, no matter how much experience we accumulate.”

“Our experiences have taught us that no matter how silly it may look today, it might become correct at some point in the future when the criteria used for evaluation are changed”

“What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it is always telling one things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true.”

“It's such a silly little thing, the heart.”