Childhood is a short season.

Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.

I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or fins.

The trouble with being a hypochondriac these days is that antibiotics have cured all the good diseases.

There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.

It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.

There is no such thing as a good or bad ad in isolation. What is good at one moment is bad at another. Research can trap you into the past.

I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination.

Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at all seasons, madam: that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

To reject the word is to reject the human search.

Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.