humor

"I lie back. They've "refurbished" the room. I loathe the word, its blunt sound , and don't say it without irony."

"A desert is a place without expectation."

"Iraq is not disarmed, the commission can not verify that all weapons and capability to produce weapons are indeed disposed of, destroyed, removed, or rendered harmless in accordance with provisions of…"

"Since when did a mathematician need any tools but his own head? Pythagoras had done well enough with a stick and a stretch of sand."

"Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America."

"Songs O' Cheer – collection of humorous poems from the book published in 1883."

"Interviews with Charlie Rose, 2003 and 2008"

"We are exhausted and have endured so much that this war seems without purpose.. .. strange that Spain, which provides so little for the needs of this country .. ..has an abundance of means to wage an …"

"Landlords... grow richer, as it were in their sleep, without working, risking, or economizing."

"No world lacks its villains so self-confident that they don’t believe they can get the best end of a bargain with the darkness."

"An interview with Dick Cavett"

"Large-scale problems do not require large-scale solutions; they require small-scale solutions within a large-scale framework."

"Semtex... with nowt taken out!"

"What the Hell is Wrong with the Washington Post? Another unrepentant, genocidal terrorist is given op-ed column space in the Washington Post... The Washington Post has truly hit bottom now. They owe t…"

"No definite and permanent advance is made in any kind of work, whether with materials or men, until use is made of measurement."

"No actions are to be taken against the Germans without our consent."

"Everyone feels embarrassed, but when you laugh it off, it's fine."

"I can see him to this day. He was witty and funny, always playing himself in the movies. He smoked so many cigarettes, there was a nicotine streak on his upper lip and on his fingers between the index…"

"Comparison of Kundera with Alan Lightman"

"Spring and autumn are inconsiderable events in a landscape compared with the shadows of a cloud."