“If we were rational creatures we would never get out of bed or live or love.”

“If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.”

“There are some sufferings that we seem as a creature to forget, or we would never survive as a creature among all the other creatures.”

“As with so many other aspects of our lives, we were never prepared fortrouble.We just tried like hell to get out of the way when it came.”

“As if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures.”

“If a Martian (who, we'll imagine, never dies except by accident) came to Earth and saw this peculiar race of creatures - these humans who live about seventy or eighty years, knowing that death is going to come - it would look to him like a terrible problem of psychology to live under those circumstances, knowing that life is only temporary. Well, we humans somehow figure out how to live despite this problem: we laugh, we joke, we live.”