[W]hen a historian enters into metaphysics he has gone to a far country from whose bourne he will never return a historian. – Shailer Mathews, The Spiritual Interpretation of History

No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour its probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are. – P. J. ORourke