The profession of letters is, after all, the only one in which one can make no money without being ridiculous.
Art: to nudge truth along a little.
Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
We are in the world to laugh. In purgatory or in hell we shall no longer be able to do so. And in heaven it would not be proper.
It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.