“Ain’t nothing too serious. Even death is a joke on the old devil, if we are living for the Lord.”

“Even death is a joke on the old devil, if we are living for the Lord.”

“You should not take old people who are already dead seriously. It does them injustice. We immortals do not like things to be taken seriously. We like joking. Seriousness, young man, is an accident of time. It consists, I don't mind telling you in confidence, in putting too high a value on time. I, too, once put too high a value on time. For that reason I wished to be a hundred years old. In eternity, however, there is no time, you see. Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.”

“People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.”

“Life's too short to take yourself seriously, and too long to take a wife jokingly.”

“You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.”