humor

"which, in conjunction with Blucher and the Prussians at Waterloo, saved the British Army from destruction."

"When you trick people into laughing at themselves, that's wit. If you don't laugh at yourself, everything becomes heavy."

"Every time is a time for comedy in a world of tension that would languish without it. But I cannot confine myself to lightness in a period of human life that demands light ... We all know that, as the…"

"Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma."

"Our duty is not merely to abolish the capitalist order but to set up a higher order in its place. But we must oppose those forces aiming to destroy capitalism only in order to replace it with another …"

"Friends humor and flatter us, they steal our time, they encourage our love of ease, they make us content with ourselves, they are the foes of our virtue and our glory."

"I cannot help believing that Mucius was all the more lucky because he manipulated the flames as calmly as if he were holding out his hand to the manipulator. He had wiped out all his previous mistakes…"

"… the judge in the Saddam trial appears to be wearing comedy specs and moustache."

"In this matter, as in many others, my sympathies were with the Left."

"The Judge, whose core issue is our sense of worth and value, splits us into Judge and Subject to be Judged. When possessed by the Judge, we live in a world of comparisons, competition, and punishment,…"

"On the phone with his wife when the plane he was on stopped after hitting a deer."

"Oh, you are so spot on. I absolutely agree with you."

"1983 audio interview with Mark Helprin by Don Swaim"

"The technopolistic plutocracy will dump pollutants into the atmosphere for another century on the grounds that compliance with limits is too expensive."

"My chest bumps like a dryer with shoes in it."

"In vain, therefore, should we pretend to determine any single event, or infer any cause or effect, without the assistance of observation and experience."

"It was a really interesting experience for me because, like I said, I had never seen a horror film. It was a very physical role. Wes was so specific and clear about what he wanted, such a good captain…"

"He was a failure but did his best to hid it. One of his failings was that he could barely write, except in a twelfth century hand, in Latin, with abbreviations."

"It's funny – if you told me five years ago that Netflix was producing quality content and they have actors and filmmakers all over Hollywood super excited to be in business with them, I would've been …"

"I never notice what is said about me. I am credited with things I have never done, and abused for them. It would be idle to attempt to contradict newspaper talk and street rumors."