"Science is not a vast encyclopedia, it is a thin flame of reason burning across ample reservoirs of ignorance."

“But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.”

“There is nothing I have to do, nowhere I have to go, and no way I have to be except exactly the way I am being right now.”

“I eat five to seven meals a day and a couple of protein shakes”

“The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral.”

“No, there's going to be no even tenor with me. The more uneven it is the happier I shall be. And when my time comes to die, I'll be able to die happy, for I will have done and seen and heard and experienced all the joy, pain, thrills — every emotion that any human ever had — and I'll be especially happy if I am spared a stupid, common death in bed.”

Source : Letter to his parents from Paris, December 5, 1919.

“Each of us has our own destiny. Mine is to be an actor.”

“I think mice Are rather nice. Their tails are long, Their faces small, They haven't any Chins at all.”

Source : Rose Fyleman, Katja Bandlow, Neil Philip (2004). “Mary Middling and Other Silly Folk: Nursery Rhymes and Nonsense Poems”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“I seen a pig so big it’d block out the sun.”