Oppressed people are treacherous for the simple reason that treachery is both a means of survival and a way to curry favor with one's oppressor.

It's the Government's job to print the money, deliver the mail and declare war. Now give me my cigarettes.

The nice thing about Southerners is the way we enjoy our neuroses.

Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.

There's something unrefined about a reading woman, they always reek of the lamp. How can she grow up to be a lady if she's always got her nose in a book? Granny Rudin

One of life's intriguing paradoxes is that hierarchical social order makes cheap rents and outré artists' colonies possible. Raffish bohemian neighborhoods flourished in the days of racial segregation; under integration the artistic poor have no safe places in which to create.... If America lacks a vigorous culture it is partly because studios and ateliers have become crack houses.

The Apologizer Bunny keeps going and going and going.