In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

Who apart from ourselves, can see any difference between our victories and our defeats?

Equality is a mortuary word.

Where in this small-talking world can I find A longitude with no platitude?

If we could wake each morning with no memory of living before we went to sleep, we might arrive at a faultless day.

There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.