Mitchell

“But I found myself wondering if, by whistling about whistling while you work while you were actually working, you would cause some odd bit of the universe, in some unknown dimension, to fold in upon itself—rather like a Klein bottle, which has no inside or outside—causing you to disappear up your own posterior in a cloud of probably invisible orange smoke.”
― Alan Bradley, The Golden Tresses of the Dead

“Parsifal is the opera that begins at five-thirty and when you look at your watch three hours later, it is only five forty-five.”
― William F. Buckley Jr., Stained Glass

“There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.”
― Ronald Reagan

“Humility is a most excellent barometer,” he said, “and ought to be looked for in all those we are made to look up to.”
― Alan Bradley, The Golden Tresses of the Dead