"Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied." - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

"Life is a jest, and all things show it;
I thought so once, but now I know it."
- JOHN GAY, My Own Epitaph

"What is utterly absurd happens in the world." - NIKOLAI GOGOL, The Nose

". . . the privilege of absurdity, to which no living creature is subject but men only." - THOMAS HOBBES, Leviathan

"From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step." - NAPOLEON I, attributed

"Life is full of infinite absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true." - LUIGI PIRANDELLO, Six Characters in Search of an Author