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

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.

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

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

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

Evil and laughter cannot co-exist.

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