God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. (Voltaire)

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. (Dwight D. Eisenhower , Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953)

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. (A. J. Liebling)

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. (Umberto Eco)