“...of course, every cat is really the most beautiful woman in the room.”

“The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do.”

“I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.”

“His face was the sort of British face from which emotion has been so carefully banished that a foreigner is apt to think the wearer of the face incapable of any sort of feeling; the kind of face which, if it has any expression at all, expresses principally the resolution to go through the world decorously, without intruding upon or annoying anyone.”

“Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.”

“Impressive, most impressive.”

“Z is for Zany! Master the Zany habit of thinking backwards. it will help you become a really great thinker!”