“Reality had a disappointing habit of not measuring up to my memories.”

“Far more important than your actual ability is what those who follow you believe you can do.”

“Of course she's read it. Half of England has read it, which is why it's vulgar to quote it.' 'Half the world has read the Bible and we quote it.”

“Certain things between friends are said not because you don't know them, but because you need the other person just to say them.”

“I had shaved my beard for her-a huge disappointment, because I’d enjoyed my three weeks looking like a bank robber.”

“The transference of culture in time can, in large measure, be described as the conservation of sign systems serving as a control on behavior.”

“Any man who can take a TV wall apart and put it back together again, and most men can nowadays, is happier than any man who tries to slide-rule, measure, and equate the universe, which just won't be measured or equated without making man feel bestial and lonely.”