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"I had very little in common with and knew even less about a generation that I was supposed to be the voice of."

"Bill Finger and I created the Joker. Bill was the writer. Jerry Robinson came to me with a playing card of the Joker. That's the way I sum it up. looks like Conrad Veidt — you know, the actor in The M…"

"Culture makes the whole world our dwelling place; our palace in which we take our ease and find ourselves at one with all things."

"Lord Peter Wimsey: He dogs my footsteps with the incompetent zeal of fifty Watsons."

"He was like twitching and frothing and it was my father, … I went like all pale. I felt all the blood leave my body. And then my father was like, 'How dare you?' And he stormed out of the theater and …"

"Comedy is quite different to anything else – the most important thing is getting a laugh, and it’s a technical skill. You can easily kill a laugh by coming in too soon or with a different expression, …"

"Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor th…"

"Absurdity, n. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion."

"I may confess to men here, of a stock so largely English, that our English intelligence is sometimes apt to be despised by nations that think they are quicker-witted than we are. Our most valuable rea…"

"Is it always permissible to speak of the extension of a concept, of a class? And if not, how do we recognize the exceptional cases? Can we always infer from the extension of one concept's coinciding w…"

"Women. Uterine replicators with legs, as it were."

"I played until I was 33 or 34 with one and a half legs."

"Zero Punctuation on Wikiquote"

"The Paris Review Interview with Joan Didion, 2006"

"Humor is a marvelous communications tool, as Reagan has demonstrated so well. He has weathered many a storm that others might not have. With Reagan, people just say, 'There he goes again.' A sense of …"

"Then there was the man who declared in court, he wasn't a person. "Excuse me, sir, why haven't you paid your taxes." "Well, as you can clearly see, I am not a person." "Well, you look like a person." …"

"This is an opening gift tht we are making in conjunction with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of half a million dollars."

"You get these people, and they'll probably always be with us, who get offended by comedy. And I used to not mind until it occurred to me one day; most people who get offended at jokes watch porn! Like…"

"I had a regular battle with the dunghill-cock."

"Spy three suspicious butterflies flitting over hedge. Check the planes. Yep, small foliots, arms flapping wildly. Wasp rises up behind them, shoots down out of sun, zaps them with Infernos, one, two, …"