humor

"Look how your children grow up. Taught from their earliest infancy to curb their love natures — restrained at every turn! Your blasting lies would even blacken a child's kiss. Little girls must not be…"

"Harriet Tubman Biography page with new information and research"

"When you laugh at something, you don’t fear it anymore."

"Alasdair Gray: 'I regard my work as deeply unfashionable'" · Guardian video interview with Charlotte Higgins"

"I Can't go to Houston without them come after my genitals, eh the TSA perv"

"How can you argue with a woman who won't?"

"Shedding Light on Shadowland--in-depth essay about Farmer with quotes and rare photos"

"The technology needed for an early Internet-connection implant is no more than 25 years off. Imagine that you could understand any language, remember every joke, solve any equation, get the latest new…"

"Somehow I knew that unless I contained the anger within me I would suffer the fates of Bigger Thomas and Damon Cross. It was intoxicating to act upon one's rage, to wear it on one's shoulder, to be de…"

"Vanity. What's wrong with vanity? It doesn't satisfy."

"Leo never was much of a hitter. I tried to help him once. I suggested that he become a switch-hitter and that if he did, his average would jump up to .400. "Two hundred right-handed and two hundred le…"

"What I'm suggesting is, stand for yourself, be for something and the hell with it. Because the hand-wringers and the editorialists and the sigh-and-pontificate crowd will be against you, whatever you …"

"The doctrines of Calvinism involved a reversal of values with which Arnold became increasingly concerned. Work had always been a curse and a means, but it had now turned into a blessing and an end. Th…"

"The Karg looked at her with the interested expression of a coroner who sees his customer twitch."

"Beeley's Twitter page"

"577. Folly growes without watering."

"In one respect, however, I agree that monetarism was wrong, namely, to the extent that it failed to recognize the need to allow inflation to occur to the extent that it was solely due to falling outpu…"

"Tribute page with links to online excerpts"

"A constellation of the most pedantic, obstinate ignorance and presumption, mixed with a kind of rustic incivility, which would try the patience of Job."

"...Morphy was stronger than anyone he played with, including Anderssen"