Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time?
Menceritakan lelucon adalah seni tersendiri, dan selalu muncul dari beberapa ancaman emosional. Lelucon terbaik berbahaya, dan berbahaya karena mereka dengan cara tertentu jujur.
If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.
When I'm being funny, I try not to offend. I don't think much of what I've done has been in really ghastly taste. I don't think I have embarrassed many people or distressed them.
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.
It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.
I left the Middle West for Schenectady because the General Electric Company offered me a more congenial, better paying job than did anyone else.
Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.
Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951.
I am from a family of artists. Here I am, making a living in the arts. It has not been a rebellion. It's as though I had taken over the family Esso station.
Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.