Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.
Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen.
My hope is to see Tom Cruise jumping on my couch.
The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.
I hope, when I stop, people will think that somehow I mattered.
I'm still only half the writer I hope I will be.
I hope I get married one day.
I hope that memory is valued - that we do not lose memory.
Every moment of your life that is not a complete nightmare is happiness.
Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
We don't appreciate the value of humor sometimes.
Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension.
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it.
Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.
Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
Fashion is an expression of a time, of a place, of history. It's putting things into context.
