Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.