• We're taking part in a divine comedy and we should realise that the play is always a comedy, in that we're all ultimately ridiculous.

    Max Hastings: We're taking part in a divine comedy and we should realise that the play is always a comedy, in that we're all ultimately ridiculous.
    "The view from Hastings" by Geraldine Bedell, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2002.