Quotes:
"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward."
"Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand."
"Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative."
"There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president."
"Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college."
"Humor is an almost physiological response to fear."
"1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them."
"The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were."
"Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything."
"Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey."
"A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved."
An interview he did when he was on The Daily Show:
A Companion to that Interview, is the list of "Liberal Crap" he no longer wants to hear.If reading's not your thing, go see the movie Mother Night, and if you can find it the Showtime Special "Harrison Bergeron" and if you're in the mood for an older flick, Slaughterhouse Five. If movies aren't your thing, then go buy everything you can by this man, especially Slaughterhouse Five, Cat's Cradle, Bluebeard and Breakfast of Champions.
