We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
— Dennis Miller
The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one’s preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizzare which seems inherent in them.
— Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles