humor

"Let me have none of your Popish stuff! Get away with you, good morning."

"For those who, like myself, are inclined to be eclectic, no comprehensive commitment to one approach rather than another needs to be made. What is involved, rather, is the selection of the approach be…"

"The Russian colossus...has been underestimated by us...whenever a dozen divisions are destroyed the Russians replace them with another dozen."

"Dear darling Americans, Jesus let them come with the atom bomb quick."

"Then again, it was Jace. He'd pick a fight with a Mack truck if the urge took him."

"Our hearts and prayers go out to the families of the victims. This isn't something that we take lightly. My comments were not meant to be ones that were taken lightly. What I was saying in a humorous …"

"I haven't tried to picture this war in a big, broad-minded way. I'm not old enough to understand what it's all about, and I'm not experienced enough to judge its failures and successes. My reactions a…"

"Jack was on top of the sow, stabbing downward with his knife. Roger found a lodgment for his point and began to push till he was leaning his whole weight. The spear moved forward inch by inch and the …"

"A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth."

"Someone who would go across a desert that can kill you, to get to another country? You want to be an American *that* bad? 'Cause I've never had to lift my damn finger to be an American. I'm honored to…"

"He's a guy who's in charge of determining our energy policy, and he's doing it with $31 million of oil company money in his pocket. Is anybody fucking home?"

"Like the East Side tenement, our house was seldom without the sound of music or laughter or questions being asked or stories being told."

"many texts of Schwitter's poems, translated"

"are so uncompromising in their view of the world, which is why they are such a fantastically rich source of comedy. They are so relentless and so clear in their view of things, and they won't be shove…"

"Evidently, Ted had walked down the block from his own house and entered with the intention of fixing something. Now Ted was broken, too, and beyond repair."

"I thought "This is the pinnacle of life, to me: if could do this-- y'know, if could stand up on stage and make people laugh, that would be the ultimate accomplishment of my personality!" And I just th…"

"We are all responsible. We are all complicit. White T-shirts catch the light. What matters is what we then do with that light."

"It rhymes with complaining."

"Have you ever watched, like, a cartoon that you used to watch when you were little, as an adult? That shit is wild shit. It's some wild shit. I mean, like, I was with my nephew. We sittin' there, we w…"

"From the Prestige come a few little glazes with the appearance of plasticine."