Dane

“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.”
― Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science

“The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.”
― Horace Walpole

“I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses