A satirist, often in danger himself, has the bravery of knowing that to withhold wit's conjecture is to endanger the species.

Prague is like a vertical Venice steps everywhere.

Rosalia is dressed in raven clothes forty years too old for her, so that she seems to be in mourning for her life.

People in a temper often say a lot of silly, terrible things they mean.

Funniness is the wild card in the pack.

The masters of the comic spirit are often our prophets.

jokes are ideally pleasurable. They are an act of assassination without a corpse, a moment of total annihilation that paradoxically makes anything possible.

[On John Cleese:] He sometimes seems to swat at his own thoughts as if they were bees.

Black and white are the most ravishing colors of all in film.

[On Watermelon Man:] ... it is impossible to look at this film without its giving you a share in its insane bad taste, which is rather companionable of it.

Great comedy calls large matters into question.

The earth grieves, and I grieve, and I am weary of the fight

[Nathan] wasn't blindly obsessed with a possession. He wasn't crazy. He was a hero--a father who'd risked his life to rescue his son.

When you start putting the Word into practice in your everyday life, it becomes your understanding and you will overcome any challenge by its power.

A tablet replacing an exercise book is not innovation, it's just a different way to make notes.

In my teens, I was never part of the cool crowd.

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The customer service representative hung up on me when I asked to talk to a supervisor.

The number one rule of our training is empathy before education.

The woman who led [downed airmen] was named Andrée De Jongh and her story - one of heroism and peril and astounding courage - became the inspiration for my novel.

I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept