International relations is security, it's trade relations, it's power games. It's not good-and-bad. But what I saw in Yugoslavia w...as pure evil. Not ethnic hatred--that's only like a label. I really had a feeling there that I am observing unleashed human evil ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The most welcome joke to me is the one that takes the place of a heavy, not altogether innocuous thought, at once a cautionary hin...t of the finger and a flash of the eye.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What a vast fraternity it is,--that of 'Hearts that Ache.' For the last three months it has seemed to me as though all society wer...e coming to me, to drop its mask for a moment and initiate me into the mystery. How we do suffer! And we go on laughing; for, as a practical joke at our expense, life is a success.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My life has been one great big joke, A dance that's walked... A song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke When I think about myself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At bottom, to be colored means that one has been caught in some utterly unbelievable cosmic joke, a joke so hideous and in such ba...d taste that it defeats all categories and definitions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only jok...e. Every woman knows that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My work is a matter of fundamental sounds (no joke intended) made as fully as possible, and I accept responsibility for nothing el...se. If people want to have headaches among the overtones, let them. And provide their own aspirin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What makes shit such a universal joke is that it's an unmistakeable reminder of our duality, of our soiled nature and of our will ...to glory. It is the ultimate lèse-majesté.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »