I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.

Siberia is so big, it’s almost more an idea than a place

When the days start to get shorter, I want to be in some nice brick building on the East Coast with the lights glowing in the windows. When the daylight starts changing, I want to be out West.

Every once in a while, people need to be in the presence of things that are really far away.

People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.

There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.

Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.

Sometimes travel is merely an opportunity taken when you can.

Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.

I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.

Words are charms. It's like a song you didn't even know you knew.

Strive not with a man that is full of tongue, and heap not wood upon his fire. Jest not with a rude man, lest thine ancestors be disgraced

It may be true that the only reason the comic book industry now exists is for this purpose, to create characters for movies, board games and other types of merchandise.

The worthiness of any cause is not measured by its clean record, but by its readiness to see the blots when they are pointed out, and to change its mind.

A secret society within a secret society.

One must be able to say at all times--instead of points, straight lines, and planes--tables, chairs, and beer mugs

Accessories are important and becoming more and more important every day.

Ultimately, my hope is to amaze myself.

I got injured when I was a kid, and it prevented me from becoming a footballer.

I have permission to live off campus.” She didn’t say from whom, because it was primarily herself.

In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond.