Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven.
Alice Thomas EllisAdolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence.
Alice Thomas EllisI 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.
Alice Thomas Ellis