“The search for the sense of humour is as fruitless and as enduring as the hunt for the unicorn; the really wise man knows that the unicorn, being no reality but a life-enhancing myth, must never be hunted, and may only be glimpsed by the well-disposed and the lucky; it cannot be captured, and it is encountered only by indirection.”

“Life's not easy for unicorns, you know. We're a dying breed.”

“… my conscience has the same hard reality as a unicorn.”

“Much fruitless speculation has been spent over supposed hidden meanings in Lewis Carroll's Hunting of the Snark. The inclination to search for these was strictly natural, though the search was destined to fail.”

“Only three things in my life I've really liked to do - hunt, write and make love.”

“Do you know, I always thought unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!"

Well, now that we have seen each other," said the unicorn, "if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.”

“You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself.”

“A man hunted only for food or clothing or in self-defense. It was another mark of the effete and the sadistic to take life as a sport.”

“There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.”

“A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man”