You find out that the universe is a system that creeps up on itself and says 'Boo!' and then laughs at itself for jumping.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
-- Alan W Watts, (Jan 6 1915-1973), US philosopher; He was a proponent of Eastern philosophy and Western culture; wrote The Spirit of Zen, 1936.