“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.”

“It's really wonderful to work in an environment with a lot of smart people.”

“Sometimes when it goes really well, you wonder, "who's that at the piano?"”

“If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run”

“There are two kinds of people in this world : those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better.”

“Some people skip through life; some people are dragged through it. I sometimes wonder whether we are moving through time or time is moving through us.”

“Who runs a combination?" Keith asked. "With the cat shelter being the primary function? Only people who want to kill you with an axe and then put you in the garden and build a shed on you, that's who.”

“I greatly doubt whether the men who become pirate chiefs are those who are filled with retrospective terror of their fathers, or whether Napoleon, at Austerlitz, really felt that he was getting even with Madame Mère. I know nothing of the mother of Attila, but I rather suspect that she spoilt the little darling, who subsequently found the world irritating because it sometimes resisted his whims.”

“You know something, Jacob, I'd hate to be as smart as Jonh. I mean he was really, really smart, and to be that smart means you know all the answers, and when you know all the answers there's no room for dreaming.”

“… most people in the world don't really use their brains to think. And people who don't think are the ones who don't listen to others.”