The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

In relating the circumstances which have led to my confinement within this refuge for the demented, I am aware that my present position will create a natural doubt of the authenticity of my narrative.

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.

I have looked upon all the universe has to hold of horror,and even the skies of spring and flowers of summer must ever afterward be poison to me.

That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.

I like coffee exceedingly.