If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, youve created a special little thing, and thats what Im looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything. – Paul Simon
Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes. – Ted Rall
Humor has become so cliche and boring that nothings funny anymore unless it involves something totally disgusting that offends somebody or makes them feel really uncomfortable. – Tom DeLonge
I think that different pleasures work for different readers – a friend of mine wont read anything thats not a cardiovascular sort of page-turner. I tend to care less about plot, but Im a sucker for humor and strangeness. – Karen Russell
I have… had a disturbing dream in which I break through a cave wall near Nag Hammadi and discover urns full of ancient Coptic scrolls. As I unfurl the first scroll, a subscription card to some Gnostic exercise magazine flutters out. – Colin McEnroe
To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt. – Mikhail Bakunin
