"Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better."

"When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don't eat so much that you get stuck in the doorway trying to get out."

"I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out."

"Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help."

"Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything."

"Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company."

"Yes, our company is at risk because we cede control to the users, but that's how we do our business. If the community decides to kill the business, maybe it deserves to die."

"OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury."

"Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue."

"It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self."