humor

"Kids are at my level. I like goofing around with them."

"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."

"Two Audio Interviews with Brian Aldiss - 1984 and 1986 - RealAudio"

"It’s a perfect killing machine...A handgun is simply a stabbing with a bullet. It goes in like a nail... it's as if you shot somebody with a Coke can."

"Pulse interview with Morrison"

"Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one."

"Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself."

"There is a saying that we provide the machines with an end, and they provide us with the means."

"The Isagoge, or Introduction of Porphyry, translated by Thomas Taylor with an extensive preface by the translator"

"Even in our country villages we are losing our Individuals. The world is getting quite too much for us—withering us, in fact."

"Everyone fights with their abilities - the Israelis have helicopters and rockets and the Palestinians have nothing but themselves and some very primitive home-made explosives."

"Laing's Connection with Family Therapy"

"I had this discussion with some wonderful, caring Democrats earlier this week on the issue of, well, they said "surely you could agree to limit the number of rounds in a magazine, couldn’t you? How wo…"

"Every minute my style switches up, they say a real man won't hit a girl - then I aint real 'cause I beat bitches up"

"..without any deformation caused by the silly fashion of the corset.. .she stands somewhat uneasily, with her arms out and knees bent, as if she is balancing. Shadows play over her body and highlight …"

"I feel effective, competent, likely to do something positive only when I lie down and abandon myself to an interrogation without object or end."

"Chaplin you got to go with. Chaplin is a man whose talents is such that you have to gamble. First off, comedy is his backyard. He's a genius, a cinematic genius. A comedic talent without peer."

"In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone."

"Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations and resentments flit away and a sunny spirit takes their place."

"Everyone who works with me calls me "Ma." I'm the motherly type."