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Reading history, one rarely gets the feeling of the true nature of scientific development, in which the element of farce is as great as the element of triumph.

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

Farce is a much-maligned form. It's easy to do badly, and therefore, audiences may have a negative feeling about it.

Many people mistakenly think of farce as broad low comedy. In fact, it's polished high comedy.

Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible.

I never finished the 'Large Glass' because, after working on it for eight years, I probably got interested in something else; also, I was tired. It may be that, subconsciously, I never intended to finish it because the word 'finish' implies an acceptance of traditional methods and all the paraphernalia that accompany them.

At a certain point, you have to face the fact that you've turned into an old fart.

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

May I always be found 'on the Lord's errand.'