But I love to feel events overlapping each other, crawling over one another like wet crabs in a basket

Comedians are the nearest to suicide.

Truth is a matter of direct apprehension-you can't climb a ladder of mental concepts to it.

'We live' writes Pursewarden somewhere 'lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time — not by our personalities as we like to think. Thus every interpretation oа reality is based upon a unique position. Two paces east or west and the whole picture is changed.

Whatever the heart desires, it purchases at the cost of soul

Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.

The realisation of one's own death is the point at which one becomes adult.