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01Undated

I guess I'm just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation's laws.

S.J. Perelman / quote

02Undated

You'll have to leave my meals on a tray outside the door because I'll beworking pretty late on the secret of making myself invisible, which may take me almost until eleven o'clock.

S.J. Perelman / quote

03Undated

There is such a thing as too much couth.

S.J. Perelman / quote

04Undated

The main obligation is to amuse yourself.

S.J. Perelman / quote

05Undated

He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.

S.J. Perelman / quote