It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs.

Few women are dumb enough to listen to reason.

Rational answers seldom do explain.

The formula 'two and two make five' is not without its attractions.

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side-saddle.

Conclusions arrived at through reasoning have very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives.

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but still 'tis nonsense.

The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.

Fish die belly-upward and rise to the surface; it is their way of falling.

No one is exempt from talking nonsense; the misfortune is to do it solemnly.

Since attaining the full use of my reason no one has ever heard me laugh.

There is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.

One of the things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.

There's a rule saying I have to ground anyone who's crazy ... There's a catch. Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy.

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth.