Comedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.

When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.

I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance. I had high hopes of being Evil when I was two, but in my youth I came upon a firefly burning in a spider's web. I saved the victim's life." "The firefly's ?" said the minstrel. "The spider's. The blinking arsonist had set the web on fire.

I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.

The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn't get lost enough.

Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.