Laughter takes the tyranny of the lies we are told and told and told and it blows them apart.

[On cloning sheep:] Oh great, just what we need - more sheep.

What goes for sex goes double for politics.

Moms Mabley said you have to say good things about the dead. I say, 'He's dead. Good.'

So few people voted in the elections [of 1996] that the ones who did were called activists.

Laughter takes the tyranny of the lies we are told and told and told and it blows them apart.

Each time we had a visiting writer, I asked what she thought of women and humor. By the end of the year, I had perfected my question and asked Adrienne Rich why there was so little written about women and humor. She looked at me right in the eye and said, 'You write it.' I took that as an order.