“When things are at their blackest, I say to myself, 'Cheer up, things could be worse.' And sure enough, they get worse.”

“I am not a slow writer, I am not a fast writer . . . I am a half-fast writer.”

“Are you going to shake my hand,or am I going to rip your heart out?”

“Relax, Stranger. Things are not as they seem.”

“In times of crisis, it is of the utmost importance that one does not lose her head. Marie Antoinette”

“When old friends get together, everything else fades to insignificance."- War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death”

“That is to say, things have a way of getting worse and worse all the time, until in the end they get so bad that we lack even the means of knowing how bad they really are.”