Those who shun the whimsy of things will experience rigor mortis before death.

Of course I'm inconsistent! Only logicians and cretins are consistent!

I am cheerful. I don't know if I'm happy. There is a difference, you know.

You don't have to be a genius to recognize one. If you did, Einstein would never have gotten invited to the White House.

He who jokes in the executioners face can be destroyed, but never defeated.

Zippers are primal and modern at the very same time. On the one hand, your zipper is primitive and reptilian, on the other, mechanical and slick. A zipper is where the Industrial Revolution meets the Cobra Cult.

One tended to lose one’s bearings in the presence of willful and persistent acts of craziness, and the more gentle the act, the crazier it seemed, as if rage and violence, being closer to the norm, were easier to accommodate.