"It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all."

"What would you do without me? Say 'nothing.'" "Nothing," said the Prince. "Good. Then you're helpless and I'll help you."

"To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other and to feel. That is the purpose of life."

"You might as well fall on your face as lean over too far backwards"

"There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth."

"It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy."

"To see things thousands of miles away, things hidden behind walls and within rooms, things dangerous to come to, to draw closer, to see and be amazed."

"Well, I'm disenchanted, too. We're all disenchanted."

"Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I’ve not seen."

"Let us not look back to the past with anger, nor towards the future with fear, but look around with awareness."

"A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption. A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense."

"It is all but impossible to sit quietly by when someone is throwing salad plates."

"Comedy has to be done en clair. You can’t blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear."

"In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti."

"Time lies frozen there. It's always Then. It's never Now."

"Lately, I have been wondering if there is time left for daydreaming in this 21st-century world of constant communication."

"I am the Golux, the only Golux in the world and not a mere device"

"I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you?"

"You have made the moon," The Jester said. "That is the moon."

"The noblest study of mankind is Man, says Man."

"But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?"

"I don't remember any blue poodles."

"Hundreds of hysterical persons must confuse these phenomena with messages from the beyond and take their glory to the bishop rather than the eye doctor."

"At forty my faculties may have closed up like flowers at evening, leaving me unable to write my memoirs with a fitting and discreet inaccuracy, or, having written them, unable to carry them to the publisher."

"Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house."

"There was a mist of moss to ride through and a storm of glass."

"A dehoy who was terribly hobble, Cast only stones that were cobble And bats that were ding, From a shot that was sling, But never hit inks that were bobble."

"All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why"

"Man has always assumed that his is the highest form of life in the universe. There is, of course, nothing at all with which to sustain this view."

"To call such persons "humorists", a loose-fitting and ugly word, is to miss the nature of their dilemma and the dilemma of their nature."

"It’s forty kilometers through hell, sir,” said the sergeant. Mitty finished one last brandy. “After all,” he said softly, “what isn’t?"

"Progress was all right. Only it went on too long."

"There was an old coddle so molly, He talked in a glot that was poly, His gaws were so gew That his laps became dew, And he ate only pops that were lolly."

"Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog."

"Books can be burned,” croaked Black. “They have a way of rising from the ashes,” said Andreus."

"Against the may, the could be, and the should, folly 'tis to balance doubt or hope."

"The oyster is a blob of glup, but a woman is a woman."

"On his misfit globe he has outlasted the mammoth and the pterodactyl, but he has never got the upper hand of bacteria and the insects."