“Life is like a moustache. It can be wonderful or terrible. But it always tickles.”

“Madness is always a wonderful excuse, don’t you think? For doing terrible things to other people.”

“The Duke’s moustache was rising and falling like seaweed on an ebb-tide.”

“I used to think that humor was the only way to appreciate how wonderful and terrible the world is, to celebrate how big life is. But now I think the opposite. Humor is a way of shrinking from that wonderful and terrible world.”

“Was life always like that? she wondered. A game of hide and seek in which you only occasionally found the person you wanted to be?”

“Words," he said, "is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life.”

“The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master.”

“Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was like eating an egg without salt.”

“Love--the most wonderful and most terrible thing in the world.”

“Life is like music, made of highs, mids and lows. Equalize the various tones so that you can make it wonderful.”