Evil and laughter cannot co-exist.

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.

Evil and laughter cannot co-exist.

Phrase books seem to be a universal and eternal source of hilarity and I think I know why. Their authors go mad in the course of compiling them.

when a person implores you to be reasonable what he means is that you should speed round forthwith to his point of view.

I think the meaning of the universe is bound up with the egg. ... I am fed up with the meaning of the universe. Everything starts in the egg and ends in death. I think it's called 'the heartbreak at the heart of things.' But then perhaps our very mortality is an egg and at the moment of death our souls will emerge like damp chicks.