There are better things in life than alcohol, but alcohol makes up for not having them,

It's true that some of the most terrible things in the works are done by people who think, genuinely think, that they're doing it for the best, especially if there is some god involved.

Mort... had about the same talent for horticulture that you would find in a dead starfish.

He said that there was death and taxes, and taxes was worse because at least death didn’t happen to you every year.

Its useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.

Alzheimer’s is me, unwinding, losing trust in myself, a butt of my own jokes, and on bad days capable of playing hunt the slipper by myself and losing. You can't battle it, you can’t be a plucky ‘survivor.’ It steals you from yourself.

Look, the life of gnomes and goblins is nasty, brutish and short. So are they.

It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases — one was Alzheimer’s, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimer’s.

The truth is a fog, in which one man sees the heavenly host and the other one sees a flying elephant

Escapism isn't good or bad in itself. What is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to.Â