"Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy."

"All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath."

"A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain."

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function."

"There's a fundamental difference, if you look into the future, of a humanity that is a space-faring civilization."

"I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines."

"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools."

"Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress, investment of goodwill, affection and indeed money in this Institution. It was a huge success at the time."