humor

"Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists."

"I stare longingly at the bare chunk of space on the desktop. There may be a keyboard stitched into the lining of my cummerbund, but without a machine to plug it into it’s about as much use as a chocol…"

"The favorites of fortune or of fame topple from their pedestals before our eyes without diverting us from ambition."

"Racist, erratic and unpredictable, brutal, inept, bellicose, irrational, ridiculous, and militaristic."

"I was at a photo shoot and I was wearing a cross necklace that my mom bought me, and somebody made a joke like, 'Why are you wearing a cross? Like you would be religious,' And then they took it away. …"

"All the things of the universe are joined with you who smoke the pipe — All send their voices to Wakan-Tanka, the Great Spirit. When you pray with this pipe, you pray for and with everything."

"He liked the style, that wry gallows humor armed with the semblance of omniscience; a most serviceable style it was, the dialect of the initiated, protecting them from their disillusionments, their fe…"

"Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning. His landlady's cook, who always brought him his breakfast at eight o'clock…"

"Once my Dad was out of the family business and was branded a failure, he and anyone connected to him no longer mattered. So there was this level of thoughtlessness around us. So luckily we were able t…"

"For the state to wither away completely, complete communism is necessary."

"We certainly shouldn't trust to deal with anyone who supported him through his worst crimes, that's insane."

"Nobody admires anyone else without qualification. If they do they’re after an image, not a person."

"I don't know if there is a gene for comedy, but my dad was a very funny man. ... He just didn't know it. He was a naturally funny character, and when my brother and I would laugh at things he said and…"

"Jesus does not want us floating through space or sitting in front of our televisions. Jesus wants us interacting, eating together, laughing together, praying together. Loneliness is something that cam…"

"With a stiff forefinger I silenced the koto music. Peace flooded in; the world thanked me."

"A prize with money attached to it has a lot of prestige."

"We have been constantly besought to engage in competitive armaments. Frequent reports will reach us of the magnitude of the military equipment of other, nations. We shall do well to be little impresse…"

"The owning of faults is no hard matter for persons that find a fund within themselves to mend them. ."

"“Without sounding arrogant,” she says, “I’m good on my feet."

"NPR interview with William Least Heat-Moon by Tom Ashbrook, On Point"