humor

"The Roman came into the Promised Land that had become less and less as promised. The rich got along quite well with the foreign occupation; it provided protection from desperate peasants and patriotic…"

"She behaves with all the sensitivity of a sex-starved boa constrictor"

"The door opened inward, revealing a football player with an Eighties porn haircut."

"No-one can function properly without occasional peace and quiet."

"It makes sense that the bands first show took place in Seattle because as much as L.A. was our address, we had as much in common with the average "L.A." band as Seattle's weather has with Southern Cal…"

"If I negate powdered wigs, I am still left with unpowdered wigs."

"Liberadio Interview with Don Barlett"

"Capitalists behave like capitalists wherever they are. They pursue the expansion of value through exploitation without regard to the social consequences."

"Karol Cariola O. - on Twitter"

"Intermingle...jest with earnest."

"I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance."

"Billy Dee Williams once had a one-night stand with Neil Simon."

"I was learning that, even for a woman with power, the path was dotted with land mines—she's so ambitious. she's so aggressive. she's ruthless. "Funny thing," I used to say, "a man has to be Joe McCart…"

"They build their democratic institutions with pedantic conscientiousness."

"recalled endless, heated, purely Russian arguments, when the wranglers, spraying spittle and banging their fists on the table, fail to understand yet interrupt one another, themselves not even noticin…"

"I spent the weekend curled up with the Marine Corps and Army counterinsurgency field manual—because that‘s how I roll on the weekends."

"Batman: The Killing Joke"

"Shake Hands with the Devil"

"We may be saddled with Bush and Blair, but you've got Prince Charles , the Catholic church and posturing pansies such as Sean Penn, Sheryl Crow and Damon Albarn."

"We stand like a race with shrunken muscles, staring helplessly at the weights our forefathers easily lifted."