“My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. ”

“One thing has always been true: That book or that person who can give me an idea or a new slant on an old idea is my friend.”

“Your countenance perfectly informs me that you were in company last night with the person, whom you think the most agreeable in the world, the person who interests you at this present time, more than all the rest of the world put together.”

“Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of language agreeable to my personal aesthetic might seem real. But it is true.”

“A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible.”

“Every person defines reality in his own way. And every person figures that anybody who doesn't agree with him has got to be irrational.”