This is the perfect antidote to the happy aphorisms of Robert Fulghum, Alan Loy McGinnis and Norman Vincent Peale. Grimness, argues the author of this book, is humorous, and the quotes included in this book argue the absurdity of life, death, work, and love - quotes by figures such as Woody Allen, Fran Lebowitz, Lily Tomlin, Anne Sexton and others.