Brian O'Nolan

“"Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from a similar disorder."”

“One beginning and one ending for a book was a thing I did not agree with. A good book may have three openings entirely dissimilar and inter-related only in the prescience of the author, or for that matter one hundred times as many endings.”

“Do you know what I am going to tell you, he said with his wry mouth, a pint of plain is your only man.”

“"I saw that my witticism was unperceived and quietly replaced it in the treasury of my mind."”