Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

Small is beautiful.

One big pile is better than two little piles.

The world is your exercise-book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, although you can express reality there if you wish. You are also free to write nonsense, or lies, or to tear the pages.

Immature artists imitate, mature artists steal.

Faith is under the left nipple.

If there were a school for, say, sheet metal workers, that after three years left its graduates as unprepared for their careers as does law school, it would be closed down in a minute, and no doubt by lawyers.

We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge.

A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive!

Americans' greatest fear is that America will turn out to have been a phenomenon, not a civilization.

We're fantastically incredibly sorry for all these extremely unreasonable things we did. I can only plead that my simple, barely-sentient friend and myself are underprivileged, deprived and also college students.

You can fool all the people all of the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.

This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.