“I know the universe has a sense of irony, and sometimes you get reminded just how sadistic that can be.”

“When irony first makes itself known in a young man's life, it can be like his first experience of getting drunk; he has met with a powerful thing which he does not know how to handle.”

“If the universe has any soul, it is the soul of irony.”

“I have no sense of why I lost my freedom and if you do not know how you lost something, how can you protect it?”

“A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance — you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.”

“We're just fragile machines programmed with a false sense of our own importance. And every now and then the universe sends a reminder that we don't really matter to it…”

“Anjali: Oh, wow. I am tripping out that I actually get to work here! Being constantly surrounded by books! Bringing ideas, poems, and manifestoes to the world! How can you stand it?!
Jezanna: That reminds me, Lois. The lube shipment just came in.”

“Happiness is not about getting what we want from the universe, but about how we can gratefully accept what the universe has given us.”

“You have the power to remind us all that human dignity is not just a universal aspiration, but a human right.”

“Instead, it just reminded her that sometimes there were no good choices.”