...it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.

Only he who is without anything is without enemies.

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.

But I like my madness. There is a thrill in it unknown to such sanity as yours. ~ Book 1, Chapter 9.

Do you know, André, I sometimes think that you have no heart.' 'Presumably because I sometimes betray intelligence.

Open the history of the past at whatsoever page you will and there you shall find coincidence at work bringing about events that the merest chance might have averted. Indeed, coincidence may be defined as the tool used by Fate to shape the destinies of men and nations.

An intelligent observation of the facts of human existence will reveal to shallow-minded folk who sneer at the use of coincidence in the arts of fiction and drama that life itself is little more than a series of coincidences.