A person who calls facts absurdities will often be surprised. - Jack Vance

“Anacho, my friend,” said Reith, “you have a great deal to learn. The process will come as an appalling shock to you.”

All religions grew from human dread of death, reflected Travec—the brassier the claims for afterlife, the more popular the creed.

I have transcended that phase in my intellectual growth where I discover humour in simple freakishness. What exists is real; therefore it is tragic, since wherever lives must die. Only fantasy, the vapours rising from sheer nonsense, can now excite my laughter.