I can put two and two together, you know. Do not think you are dealing with a man who has lost his grapes.

It's the wanting to know that makes us matter.

There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.

From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.

Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?

Underneath runs the main current of preoccupation, which is keeping one's nose clean at all times. This means that when things go wrong you have to pass the blame along the line, like pass-the-parcel, till the music stops.

We must be born with an intuition of mortality.