“- It was a joke. Remember irony.- Sister of bitterness?”
“A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself. ”
“He did not joke, as the newspapers dared report, for sarcasm is bitter and conceals ferments of despair.”
“The New or Future Eve is emptied of all inner life and turned into a shell. The bitter irony in this is that her perfection recalls nothing so much as a corpse.”
“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”
“My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.”