“When things are at their blackest, I say to myself, 'Cheer up, things could be worse.' And sure enough, they get worse.”
“The US is at a point where just when the people imagine things can’t get any worse, they realize their imaginations weren’t big enough.”
“For a few minutes, everything is so cute that the mind reels.... And then, believe it or not, things get worse. So I shot myself.”
“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.”
“...and that's how Snuggles the hamster learned that yes, things COULD always get worse. ”
“If I'd had any way of knowing that things were- as Lily Tomlin once said- going to get a whole lot worse before they got worse, I'm not sure how I would have slept that night.”