humor

"When I came back to my native country, after all the stories about Hitler, I couldn't ride in the front of the bus. I had to go to the back door. I couldn't live where I wanted. I wasn't invited to sh…"

"…a man who sold meat but knew nothing of the poetry of the slaughterhouse…. Ted Arden was no ice-cream butcher."

"the highly praised handsomeness of my little son had disappeared and in its place was a monstrosity completely covered with pox blisters. Can you imagine how I felt?"

"When we hear any mention of our mystical union with Christ, we should remember that holiness is the channel to do it."

"The Chinese used the intervals between things as the primary means of getting 'in touch' with situations."

"The history of humorous writing discloses everchanging trends. Our fast-paced modern living is too impatient for the lengthy light verse and the leisurely essays of our forefathers."

"No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself."

"It's purty hard t' be efficient without bein' obnoxious."

"We are better off in a reformed EU than outside with no influence"

"Gandhi himself never ruled out violence absolutely and unreservedly. He conceded the necessity of arms in certain situations. He said, "Where choice is set between cowardice and violence, I would advi…"

"Eight out of twenty?!? That's only a third, and third rhymes with Turd! That's bad."

"Don't let Ted Turner deface my movie with his crayons"

"Our quarrel is not with Egypt, still less with the Arab world. It is with Colonel Nasser. He has shown that he is not a man who can be trusted to keep an agreement. Now he has torn up all his country'…"

"Donald Trump I really truly believe is a very dangerous man. If you listen to the things he said this weekend... I could go onto Fifth Avenue and shoot people and I wouldn't lose a vote. He has joked …"

"The enlisted guys will be okay, but the officers get the sense of humor trained out of ’em."

"Like the spider spinning its web, we create much of the outer world from within ourselves. The universe is a joint product of the observer and the observed."

"The coming war on China is likely to happen by mistake or accident as a result of deliberate provocations by the US and its echoes. Under cover of the pandemic, the Trump regime is sending strategic b…"

"With how much ease believe we what we wish!"

"John Connolly interview with Dennis Lehane 2000"

"Note that the name of the show is 'Trippin' ' and not 'Tripping' because the addition of the letter 'g' would not be consistent with the views of MTV's urban youth demographic who tend to frown upon l…"