All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, Iโd be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.
Lenny BruceI wanted out of the navy so bad in '45, I faked homo to get a discharge. It didn't matter that the Germans surrendered, I knew we were heading to Japan and I was done with that scene.
Lenny BruceYou can't do anything with anybody's body to make it dirty to me. Six people, eight people, one person - you can do only one thing to make it dirty: kill it. Hiroshima was dirty.
Lenny Bruce