They are explosive mixtures. Some of them are as sensitive as those fulminates which can be detonated by a falling leaf.

Once I knew a dumb girl in the office at the zipper factory who filled in all the four letter words of the easy home-town puzzle. SHIT she wrote when she could not guess the answer.

We might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined what the law is, insists on laying it down to others.

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained.

More cranks take up unfashionable errors than unfashionable truths.

Life in the [London] suburb is richer at the lower levels. At these levels the people are not self-conscious at all, they are at liberty to be as eccentric as they please, they do not know that they are eccentric.

That so few dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

Psychiatrists were presumed to be more entitled to eccentricities than ordinary folks.