“It was almost funny. Life seemed downright accidental in its brevity, and death a punch line to a lousy joke.”
“Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.”
“If they were the jokes, I was the punch line.”
“... nothing broke my heart like the slow death of a shared joke that had once seemed genuinely funny.”
“It does not matter. The joke is we all have the same punch line.”
“In the end, perhaps we should simply imagine a joke; a long joke that's continually retold in an accent too thick and strange to ever be completely understood. Life is that joke my friends. The soul is the punch line.”