“From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.”
“Music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.”
“Every man is a prisoner, and the greatest irony of all is to be the prisoner of another man.”
“It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.”
“The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us toconverse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.”
“Even if that were true, it wouldn't be irony," Lucas pointed out. "Irony is the contrast between what's said and what happens.”