An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

You know I'm no squealer, Harry.'
'You're a rummy. But no matter how rum dumb you get, if you ever talk about that, I promise you.'
'I'm a good man,' he said. 'You oughtn't to talk to me like that.'
'They can't make it fast enough to keep you a good man,' I told him. But I didn't worry about him any more because who was going to believe him?

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.

My own fault. The equipment had safeties but your primary piece of protective equipment was your brain. There was a presumption that anyone entering this room was intelligent enough to keep away from hot things, sharp things, and things carrying large stores of momentum.