“It is absurd to ape our betters.”
“We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments?”
“Better the comfort of a lie than the absurdity of the truth.”
“Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them. ”
“And I knew that it was better to live out one's absurdity than to die for that of others.”
“We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.”