Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven.

Our only hope rests on the off-chance that God does exist.

Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence.

I like money. That is, it is my preferred means of completing pecuniary transactions. I'm not particularly keen on handing over wads of currency of the realm, but at least one knows where one is, whereas the chequebook is a snare and a delusion, containing misleading numbers of blank cheques when none of the money that the bank contains is rightfully one's own. ... I think banks owe their customers a lot by way of compensation for the aggravation they cause them.

One can get very fond of the people one meets in bars. The trouble is they then appear sort of different in the daylight and you realize that taking them with you is rather like taking a goldfish for a walk: not entirely correct, and surprising for the next people you run into.

Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven.

things are never so indescribably ghastly that they can't get worse.