humor

"Why why why Manhattan are you all eating and drinking and walking around with no masks. Why."

"Poland can have nothing to do with the restoration of the old Russia. Anything rather than that – even Bolshevism."

"Real Audio interviews with William Least Heat-Moon by Don Swaim"

"2010 interview with Nathan Morley on CyBC"

"Jerusalem was the home of the country's aristocracy. Like the local aristocracies in all the other countries of the world, these had lined up with the Romans — were federated with the invader."

"Generosity is to help a deserving person without his request, and if you help him after his request, then it is either out of self-respect or to avoid rebuke."

"New Canada must be workable without Quebec, but it must be open and attractive enough to include a New Quebec."

"While awaiting sentencing, I decided to give stand-up comedy a shot. The judge had suggested I get my act together, and I took him seriously."

"About three decades ago, when I needed to purchase some office equipment, chiefly steel filing cabinets, I was amused by a firm whose computer, having been informed that R.P. Oliver was the purchasing…"

"If a 'memory peptide' could be found to be deficient in patients with dimentia, these patients could be treated in the same way that patients with diabetes are treated with insulin."

"What normal country has three former presidents, Hashemi Rafsanjani, Muhammad Khatami and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who can’t obtain passports to travel abroad? And dozens of former high officials in jail,…"

"I was assured by every son of a bitch I checked with — all the military experts and the CIA — that the plan would succeed."

"Bob Dylan Jokeson Expecting Rain"

"The Jews practically always backed the wrong horse. The Jews of Russia who worked for the destruction of monarchy found themselves finally in the grips of a brutal religious persecution which hit them…"

"Harvey Pekar Reflects on Lord Buckley and the roots of modern comedy"

"We are having extreme difficulty with local gangs of “Survivalists.” Fortunately, these infestations of egotists are mostly too paranoid to band together. They’re as much trouble to each other as to u…"

"Speaking of New York as a traveller I have two faults to find with it. In the first place there is nothing to see; and in the second place there is no mode of getting about to see anything."

"Necessity, as well as patriotism and confidence, will make us all eager to receive treasury notes, if founded on specific taxes. Congress may borrow of the public, and without interest, all the money …"

"Religious groups should exert themselves in behalf of the unemployed and should be zealous in defense of civil liberties, but they merely weaken their efforts when they enter into combinations with co…"

"He that owns himself has lost nothing. But how few men are blessed with ownership of self!"