When people say there is no place like home, the first to agree are the homeless.

We named the bar The Bar. “People will think we’re ironic instead of creatively bankrupt,” my sister reasoned.Yes, we thought we were being clever New Yorkers – that the name was a joke no one...

Nuk shquhej për zgjuarsi, por në mësime ishte i pari.

So your High Priest and Sacerdote propose to kill Death.” Edroc

Existo desde el principio del mundo y, desde entonces, soy un ironista.

Goose neck is a delicacy. You have to at least try it. In fancy restaurants people pay up to fifty dollars a plate for this stuff.’ And at our house we were force-fed it for...

That was his mother. When she wasn’t crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killing herself.

I think sometimes people think cheerful is a synonym for dumb, so no one is ever cheerful.

My father thinks reading is a waste of time.” Hunter thought her father was a waste of space.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

We must uncover our rituals for what they are: completely arbitrary things, tied to our bourgeois way of life; it isgood-and that is the real theater-totranscend them in the manner of play, bymeans of games...

What would a racist call werewolves? Wargs? She kind of liked that one, but suspected that racist bastards didn’t read Tolkien.

He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid.

Irony is the attendant of hope and the fuel of hope is innocence.

O, wonder!How many goodly creatures are there here!How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,That has such people in’t!

The fool’s crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man’s crime is the crime that is not found out.

The world always seems like it’s going to hell when you’re depressed. And, of course, it always is going to hell in some way. That’s what makes it so hard to tell the difference between...

But you see, a rich country like America can perhaps afford to be stupid.

War pacifies itself.

Irony cleans away all those secret stains. Irony is the path that leads safely back to official realities.

John says I musn’t lose my strength, and has me take cod liver oil and lots of tonics and things, to say nothing of ale and wine and rare meat.Dear John! He loves me very...

Cela ne se remarque pas, mais il est hors de lui. Il y a des gens chez qui ça ne se voit pas.

There is no greater cruelty than a genius stumbling over something idiotic.

Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? Youtake delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves.””You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect...

Perhaps we can conceive of the ironist as the fetishist’s apprentice, reaching out for all readers, ensnaring them in a tangle of ambiguity, uncertainty and indecision from which there is no escape. Irony, quite possibly,...

My momma always said, ‘You and Elvis are pretty good, but y’all ain’t no Chuck Berry.

The cinema is an invention without any future.

You could write a book about things that you can’t find on-line.

…queira Deus que nunca se extinga a caridade para que não venha a acabar-se a pobreza…

I’m as lucky as a bed of oysters on cioppino night.

He smelled the smells of commerce and listened to the cursing of the sailors, both of which he admired: the former, as it reeked of wealth, and the latter because it combined his two other...

Give the People what they want – and they’ll get what they deserve.

Regret and pangs of conscience are feelings we assign to others to make the world seem a little more fair, to even things out a little and provide consolation. In reality, those who do wrong...

Just as she was unaware of the hidden currents of politics running below the surface of College affairs, so the Scholars, for their part, would have been unable to see the rich seething stew of...

A united front announcing a split.

The things that don’t happen to us that we’ll never know didn’t happen to us. The nonstories. The extra minute to find the briefcase that makes you late to the spot where a tractor trailer...

I BELIEVE EVERYONE IS SPECIAL . . . BUT SOME PEOPLE THINK . . . . IT’S JUST ANOTHER WAY OF SAYING NO-ONE IS

It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most eloquently in the name of peace.

The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind.

During voir dire, the interviews for jury selection, each person is asked under oath about their experience with the criminal justice system, as defendant or victim, but usually not even the most elementary effort is...

I got mixed up with some oddness in my youth, and the long and short of it is that I can’t shuffle off this mortal coil until I have read the ten most boring classics.

It would be the last thing he did if he beat my dog.

Whatever doesn’t kill them, makes them make reality TV shows…

General Peckem even recommends that we send our men into combat in full-dress uniform so they’ll make a good impression on the enemy when they’re shot down”.

My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.

There’s nothing wrong with giving up all your principles for a suitable financial reward. It is indeed the basis of our society.

What an interesting irony that the foremost chip promoter in the world comes from Wisconsin and Wisconsin would be the first state to say, ‘Hey, at least get our permission first’. It’s good that lawmakers...

So the reason I was struck again and again was because of my overwhelmingly positive energy. Funny, I’d always thought of myself as a pessimist.

They say a woman’s loyalty only lasts as long as it takes her to hang up and dial again.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.