“To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.”
“Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one he wanted to worry about.”
“Anything that can be put in a nutshell, should remain there.”
“Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.”
“Optimism is the first symptom that any disease is fatal.”
“Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.”