“No good at life, but very funny sometimes with the commentary.”

“I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.”

“My God-- life! Who can understand even one little minute of it?''Don't try,' he said. 'Just pretend you understand.''That's-- that's very good advice.' I went limp.”

“Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her.”

“They like life alright, but that they would like it even better if they could know that it was going to end sometime.”

“Self-taught, are you?" Julian Castle asked Newt."Isn't everybody?" Newt inquired."Very good answer.”

“God never wrote a good play in his life.”