“ Liberty of imagination should be the most precious possession of a novelist. To try voluntarily to discover the fettering dogmas of its own inspiration, is a trick worthy of humna perverseness which,… Joseph Conrad
“ Christianity would be helpless without the idea of free will and the idea offree will would be helpless without incongruity. Kedar Joshi
“ This is a silly place. Half the world has no clean water. The other half has so much that they pooh in it. Larry Bird
“ We humans are like squirrels who spend all summer gathering and hoarding nuts and when winter comes can't remember where they are. Marty Rubin
“ They floated for a while, two flesher-shaped creatures and a giant worm in a cloud of spinning metal fragments, an absurd collection of imaginary debris, glinting by the light of the true stars. Greg Egan
“ But if one doesn't really exist, one wonders why..." she hesitated."Why one makes such a fuss about things," Anthony suggested. "All that howling and hurrahing and gnashing of teeth. About the adventu… Aldous Huxley
“ His urbane brain cut the most magnificent capers, as, chloroformed by fatigue, it directed its incoming perceptions along the most absurd paths and enjoyed the utter senselessness of its associations. Gerhard Roth
“ Lovely sight, the Apocalypse! But absurdity, without limits? No Sir! there have to be certain limits... Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“ The Law of Chaos: Any activity or event that seems to lie beyond the boundaries of possibility will usually be the first thing to occur. Ian Strang
“ The Law of Moronic Ubiquity: Anything in the universe that is generally considered to be idiot-proof will eventually be ruined by an idiot. Ian Strang
“ The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary. Benjamin Franklin
“ People have some really crazy ideas about love, friends and relationships. They have the absurd belief that their friends, children, family, lovers and companions can make them happy. Bryant McGill
“ The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious realm inhabited by children. Andre Breton
“ He himself, Anthony went on to think, he himself had chosen to regard the whole process as either pointless or a practical joke. Yes, chosen. For it had been an act of the will. If it were all nonsens… Aldous Huxley
“ A person shattered by their loss in faith must come to terms with the underlying fear and tension of his or her austere solitude and knowingly accept that the universe is utterly indifferent to a pers… Kilroy J. Oldster
