Sometimes, comics will make the observation that it's not jokes that are funny, it's characters that are funny. And isn't that true! That's why I always kill jokes. I'm terrible at them, because I get the joke right, but I can't get the character right, and it just goes down like a lead balloon.

War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.

The learnin' mind is the livin' mind, Meronym said, an any sort o'Smart is truesome Smart, old Smart or new high Smart or low.

People b'lief the world is built so an tellin em it ain't so caves the roofs on their heads'n'maybe yours.

So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . .

A novelist needs to know his own strong points and weak points.

People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function.