130 Hilarious And Witty Quotes

Laughter is truly the best medicine, a universal language that brings people together and brightens even the dullest of days. In our fast-paced world, taking a moment to chuckle can recharge your spirits and shift your perspective. It's with great pleasure that we present a carefully curated collection of the top 130 hilarious and witty quotes to tickle your funny bone. Whether you're in need of a quick pick-me-up, some inspiration for your next social media post, or just want to revel in the brilliance of cleverly crafted words, these quotes promise a delightful journey through humor. Dive in, and let the laughter roll!

1. “I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room.” - Steven Wright

2. “The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams

3. “I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.” - Flannery O'Connor

4. “He couldn’t see why people made such a fuss about people eating their silly old fruit anyway, but life would be a lot less fun if they didn’t. And there was never an apple, in Adam’s opinion, that wasn’t worth the trouble you got into for eating it.” - Neil Gaiman

5. “The first time you see something that you have never seen before, you almost always know right away if you should eat it or run away from it.” - Scott Adams

6. “I said that additionally, since I was planning to nurse, it be best if you were off the breast before I came back to work. My boss just looked at me dreamily and said, 'That won't be for sixty years, at least.” - Suzanne Finnamore

7. “It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.” - Arthur Conan Doyle

8. “Vengeance is sweet. Vengeance taken when the vengee isn't sure who the venger is, is sweeter still.” - Gary D. Schmidt

9. “Nobody comes here anymore, its too crowded” - Yogi Berra

10. “The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.” - George Bernard Shaw

11. “I can't abide people who go soft over animals and then cheat every human they come across!” - Diana Wynne Jones

12. “The old woman had an old dog, but he hardly counted any more. He was so old that he looked like a stuffed dog. Once I took him for a walk down to the store. It was just like taking a stuffed dog for a walk. I tied him up to a stuffed fire hydrant and he pissed on it, but it was only stuffed piss.” - Richard Brautigan

13. “I have infinite capacity to do more work as long as you don't mind that my quality approaches zero.” - Scott Adams

14. “If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be—a Christian.” - Mark Twain

15. “Let a smile be your umbrella, and you'll end up with a face full of rain. ” - George Carlin

16. “You've got no sense of humor.""I'm going to laugh really hard after I kick your ass.” - J.D. Robb

17. “There are 2,500 kinds of sponges, all of them consist largely of holes.” - Will Cuppy

18. “You won't even take your bow? Are you planning to throttle a moose with your bare hands, then?""I've a knife in my boot," she said, and then wondered, for a moment, if she could throttle a moose with her bare hands.” - Kristin Cashore

19. “A sharp bolt of hunger hit Luther hard. His knees almost buckled, his poker face almost grimaced. For two weeks now his sense of smell had been much keener, no doubt a side effect of a strict diet. Maybe he got a whiff of Mabel's finest, he wasn't sure, but a craving came over him. Suddenly, he had to have something to eat. Suddenly, he wanted to snatch the bag from Kendall, rip open a package, and start gnawing on a fruitcake.” - John Grisham

20. “How can we be alive and not wonder about the stories we knit together this place we call the world? Without stories our universe is merely rocks and clouds and lava and blackness. It's a village scraped raw by warm waters leaving not a trace of what existed before.” - Douglas Coupland

21. “America is a melting pot, the people at the bottom get burned while all the scum floats to the top.” - Charlie King

22. “There are more than enoughto fight and oppose;why waste good timefighting the people you like?” - Morrissey

23. “There ARE people who won't customarily eat an entire row of cookies, or hear food calling their name from other rooms, or who don't grind up food in the garbage disposal for fear of eating it, or get it back out of the garbage so they could eat it. Of course, my binge eating was just a cover-up for the larger issue: Trying to fill the emptiness” - SARK

24. “What happens next?" she whispered.Connor turned to her and smiled faintly. Always a question, that was Rebecca.There's more?" he said in mock wondermentRebecca dimpled.You know very well there is more."Tell me all about it," he encouraged.In Papa's book—"Tell me all about it without mentioning your papa.” - Julie Anne Long

25. “Wizards don't believe in gods in the same way that most people don't find it necessary to believe in, say, tables. They know they're there, they know they're there for a purpose, they'd probably agree that they have a place in a well-organised universe, but they wouldn't see the point of believing, of going around saying "O great table, without whom we are as naught." Anyway, either the gods are there whether you believe in them or not, or exist only as a function of the belief, so either way you might as well ignore the whole business and, as it were, eat off your knees.” - Terry Pratchett

26. “He went through the cupboards, found the olive oil, and started upstairs again. He glanced down at the green and gold label and had to bite back a laugh at the words Extra Virgin.That about summed it up.” - Josh Lanyon

27. “i find nothing more depressing than optimism.” - Paul Fussell

28. “Are you guys busy?" Juniper asked. "Well," I said, "we're in the middle of this game against a bunch of monsters and we're trying not to die." "We're not busy," Annabeth said.” - Rick Riordan

29. “Twitter provides us with a wonderful platform to discuss/confront societal problems. We trend Justin Bieber instead.” - Lauren Leto

30. “Jesus!" Luke exclaimed."Actually, it's just me," said Simon. "Although I've been told the resemblance is startling.” - Cassandra Clare

31. “I leveled the gun and fired until it was empty.” - Rachel Brady

32. “I'll tell you something. Once I was very fond of a poem by Emily Dickinson or somebody. I only remember one line of it, but it goes, 'The soul selects her own society.' I used to tell it to everybody. Once I quoted it to a friend of mine, and he said, 'Maybe, but the body gets thrown into bed with the goddamnedest people.” - Peter S. Beagle

33. “We have just witnessed a classic example of what I like to call 'misdirected rage'. I believe the technical term is being an ass.” - Natsuki Takaya

34. “Closed. Plenty of time to see it later, remember?" He leads me into the courtyard, and I take the opportunity to admire his backside. Callipygian. There is something better than Notre-Dame.” - Stephanie Perkins

35. “I’m not sitting back here with another dude while there are two perfectly doable females in the car.” - Nicki Elson

36. “I laughed, loud enough that Delia looked up at me. She made motions for me to come over, but I pretended to be looking past her into the food tent. "Hurry. Pretend you're pointing something out so I can pretend not to see her." Luke put a hand on my shoulder and pointed with the other towards the sky. "Look, the moon." "That was the best you could come up with?" I demanded.” - Maggie Stiefvater

37. “There's no need to clarify my finger snap," said Magnus. "The implication was clear in the snap itself.” - Cassandra Clare

38. “There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure.” - Jack E. Leonard

39. “Those women like to see their tongues dance.” - Ray Bradbury

40. “Was this some new level of depravity? Had he developed a spinster fetish?” - Lisa Kleypas

41. “No one is born a dancer. You have to want it more than anything.” - Mikhail Baryshnikov

42. “Elizabeth: "Your balls, Mr. Darcy?"Darcy: "They belong to you, Miss Bennett.” - Seth Grahame-Smith

43. “While I respect the Judeo-Christian ethic, as well as the eastern philosophies and of course the teachings of Mohammed, I find that organized religion has corrupted those beliefs to justify countless atrocities throughout history. Were I to attend church, I'd be a hypocrite.” - Hyde

44. “Reed: "What's up?"Vanessa: "There must be an accident or something."Reed: "I'm the accident."Vanessa: "I couldn't agree more."Reed: "What I meant was, those people out there are waiting for me.” - Jenny O'Connell

45. “That is a considerable amount of puppets. But ... [Proceeds to summon one hundred puppets of his own] With this, I took down a whole country” - Masashi Kishimoto

46. “No big deal. We all have blood in us, the trick is keeping it inside.” - Jeff Lindsay

47. “At the end of a miserable day, instead of grieving my virtual nothing, I can always look at my loaded wastepaper basket and tell myself that if I failed, at least I took a few trees down with me.” - David Sedaris

48. “Let's look at this rationally...We've got a doctor who may kill him, an Attorney General who wants to declare him bananas, and a Defense Secretary who wants me to start World War III...First, we ruled out starting World War III. We were down to killing the President or having him carted off by the men in white coats...” - Christopher Buckley

49. “I really hate threesomes when one of the participants is dead.” - Jordan Castillo Price

50. “Help me out here, Jeremy," she said pleadingly.He gave her a look. "Why should I do that?""Because once, nineteen years ago, you were wrong about him, too."Jeremy stared at her stoically. After a long pause, his face broke into a smile. "Aw, hell, you crazy kid, you knew I was gonna let you in—I'm a sucker for this stuff.” - Julie James

51. “I'd wish you luck, but I don't think it would help.''Why not?''My lady, you make your own luck.” - Maria V. Snyder

52. “Since i couldn't remember the "real" first time i'd lost my virginity, this would have become my de facto first time. I wanted a better story then: I did it with this boy who i wasn't very into and who had mysterious Gaterade breath; in his room decorated with sports equipment; at least he was nice enough to provide condoms and get his ancient, horny dog to leave us along.” - Gabrielle Zevin

53. “Go back to bed, America. Your government has figured out how it all transpired. Go back to bed, America. Your government is in control again. Here. Here's American Gladiators. Watch this, shut up. Go back to bed, America. Here is American Gladiators. Here is 56 channels of it! Watch these pituitary retards bang their fucking skulls together and congratulate you on living in the land of freedom. Here you go, America! You are free to do what we tell you! You are free to do what we tell you!” - Bill Hicks

54. “He made a careful rehearsal of some of their bits of talk--why had she said this? what had she meant by that? why had she done the other? He dwelt on these matters with an absorbed speculation, and with a young man of Ogden's temperament speculation was but the first step on the way to love.” - Henry Blake Fuller

55. “The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.” - George Bernard Shaw

56. “I feel ill," [Howl] announced. "I'm going to bed, where I may die.” - Diana Wynne Jones

57. “It is a curiously moving experience, to hear 350 sailors uttering the words "Oh shit!" in eleven different languages.” - John Biggins

58. “Rather a thousand times the county jail than to lie under this marble figure with wings and this granite pedestal bearing the words "pro patria." What do they mean anyway?” - Edgar Lee Masters

59. “Randy lay there like a slug. It was his only defense.” - Jean Shepherd

60. “Godshawk looked surprised, the way that people generally do when you ask them philosophical questions in shrubberies in the middle of the night.” - Philip Reeve

61. “Down with tyranny!' Bramble cried. 'Aristocracy! Autocracy! Monocracy! Other ocracy things! You are outnumbered, sir! Surrender!” - Heather Dixon

62. “Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.” - Oscar Wilde

63. “Samppanja on ainoa viini, jota nainen voi juoda monta lasillista ja silti näyttää kauniilta” - Madame De Pompadour

64. “That ones yours,huh?"he asked,pointing to 3A."How come it just says 'Kyle'?Doesnt he have a last name?""Kyle wants to be a rock star,"Simon said,heading down the stairs."I think his working the one-name thing.Like Rihanna.” - Cassandra Clare

65. “Where are you going?""Nowhere special. I just have some... things to do.""Why did you pause?'"I'm sorry?""You paused. You have 'some... things to do.'"No reason, I just--""You're up to something.""No--""Then why'd you pause?""Get in the car."She got in. He got in."Seat belt," he said.Why'd you pause?"His head drooped. "Because I'm up to somthing.""And why can't I come with you?""Because it's something sneaky.""Do you promise to tell me later?""I do.""Well all right then." She clicked her seat belt into place. "Let's go.” - Derek Landy

66. “I can talk for a long time only when it's about something boring.” - Lydia Davis

67. “If you don't love Jesus-go to hell!” - Kinky Friedman

68. “She didn't have any intention of crying. The tears caught her by surprise. She knew she was behaving like a child, that she was being terribly foolish and emotional, but she didn't know how to stop herself."Judith?" His thumb brushed away one of the tears on her cheek. "Tell me why you're crying.""There weren't any flowers. Iain, there should have been flowers."Her voice had been so soft, he wasn't certain he understood her. "Flowers?" he asked."Where weren't there any flowers?"He waited for her to explain, but she stubbornly remained silent. He squeezed her."In the chapel.""What chapel?""The one you don't have," she answered.” - Julie Garwood

69. “Remember when only a few people had mobile phones. Generally regarded as an object of derision, you would occasionally see business types clutching those ridiculous grey bricks to their faces and mutter to yourself 'what a prick.' Nowadays, an eyebrow hardly even flutters when we see a ten-year-old child happily texting away. You probably wouldn't notice anyway; you'd be too busy downloading an app that could definitively pinpoint who it was that had just farted in your tube carriage.” - Simon Pegg

70. “...And so we go and I meet his parents. And it's a very strange thing meeting your girlfriend's boyfriend's parents for the first time. Part of you is angry for obvious reasons and part of you still wants to make a good impression. On a side note, they seemed in perfect health.” - Mike Birbiglia

71. “The elevator turned out to be slower than the damned train at Disney World. And it played “The Girl from Ipanema” in Muzak. I looked at Paris and saw that he was mouthing the lyrics. That was it. I’d have to plan an intervention for him once we got home.” - Leslie Langtry

72. “I want to see the front of you.”“That’s what all the girls say.”“Do you expect me to roll you over? ’Cuz I will.”“Your mate’s not going to like this.”“As if that’s going to bother you?”“True. It actually makes it worth the effort.”With a groan, he shoved his palms into the shimmering silver pool of blood beneath him, and flopped over like the side of beef he was.“Wow,” she breathed.“I know, right? Hung like a horse.”“If you’re really nice—and you live through this—I’ll promise not to tell V.”“About my size.”She laughed a little. “No, that you assumed I’d look at you in any fashion other than professionally.” - J.R. Ward

73. “In every possible instance Saint Paul begged Christians to restrain themselves to contain their carnal yearnings to live solitary and sexless lives on earth as it is in heaven. "But if they cannot contain " Paul finally conceded then "let them marry for it is better to marry than to burn." Which is perhaps the most begrudging endorsement of matrimony in human history.” - Elizabeth Gilbert

74. “It’s just...” She scrubbed a hand across her face. “I keep looking for someone to share life with, someone patient. Not afraid of a mop or use the stove. Even-tempered, understanding, not allergic to emotion.” She closed her eyes momentarily. “Someone sweet.”Hunter stifled a grimace. She was describing a female with a penis.” - Shayla Black

75. “I wasn't in any danger," Henry said quickly. "Dunford likes to exaggerate.""He does?" Alex asked, raising his brows."He was very anxious," she told him, then turned to Emma as if she had to explain. "He gets very anxious.""Anxious?" Emma echoed."Dunford?" Alex asked at the very same time."You must be joking," Emma added, in a tone that suggested there could be no other possible alternative.” - Julia Quinn

76. “(Regarding check-cashing places):It's hitting me how poor this really is: I'm standing in a long line to pay someone to give me my pay. So, technically, they get paid before I do, and it's my damn check.” - Angela Nissel

77. “Poor woman! She probably thought change of air might agree with many of her children.” - Jane Austen

78. “Enough about my beauty," Buttercup said. "Everybody always talks about how beautiful I am. I've got a mind, Westley. Talk about that.” - William Goldman

79. “This is no time for drinking a mug of water - which you would do nowhere else in the world. A mug of water! You just don't drink water from mugs, do ya? Except on the telly. Water out of a mug! Should be a hot drink... mug of water.” - Russell Brand

80. “When I was kidnapped as a child my parents sent a letter to the hijackers me Pay 5,000 dollars or your back” - Rodney Dangerfield

81. “A travesty of epic proportions,” Tock agreed. “How much you wanna bet they couldn’t even turn the computer on?” - T.J. Klune

82. “There's not even real *popularity* at my school.""That," Coli said emphatically, "is a sentence that has only ever been spoken by popular people.” - John Green

83. “Writer's Block is just an excuse by people who don't write for not writing.” - Giando Sigurani

84. “...it’s just another one of those things I don’t understand: everyone impresses upon you how unique you are, encouraging you to cultivate your individuality while at the same time trying to squish you and everyone else into the same ridiculous mould. It’s an artist’s right to rebel against the world’s stupidity.” - E.A. Bucchianeri

85. “Can you believe the man rhymed 'Rumplestiltskin' with 'crumpled napkins'?” - Christopher Healy

86. “How's the world treating you this morning?''Like a baby treats a diaper.” - Biyi Bandele-Thomas

87. “What's the whole point of being pretty on the outside when you’re so ugly on the inside?” - Jess C. Scott

88. “Should I take anything?” I asked, as Shamus slammed the trunk shut. “A healthy sense of self-preservation would be good,” he said.” - Devon Monk

89. “Don't even think about it.""Well, when can I walk by myself?""When you get your driver's license.""You always, always say that." Dillie scowled at him. "That's when everything happens.""It's going to be a busy day," Phin agreed.” - Jennifer Crusie

90. “Never let other people bring you down let Jesus be the one who brings you down, because he knows what he is doing” - Skye Daphne

91. “Alan: Conning people out of their savings. Forgery. Blackmail. Selling real estate on Mars. We could have it all. You with me, Bambi?"Sin: "Clive, I was with you from 'I'm a social worker.” - Sarah Rees Brennan

92. “Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They'll believe anything they see in print.” - E.B. White

93. “Dionysus, as the God of Wine, suggested that the occasion should be turned into a magnificent orgiastic event, with the Muses & the Graces dancing to the music of Apollo, Hermes & Pan as well as that of the Maenads & Bacchantes.So the venue that Dionysus suggested was agreed upon even before the main players, the King of the Gods & the Goddess of Love, had agreed to mate.” - Nicholas Chong

94. “You can only fight one man at a time with a sword, but, with a pen, you can compose a lecture to bore legions of enemy troops to death.” - Lindsay Buroker

95. “You better not be dead. This team is already overflowing with ankle spankers. I was looking forward to having more women around." Yara's eyelids fluttered open. She blinked a few times, focused on him, and frowned."Ankle spanker? The only thing you've got that'll reach that far is your ego.” - Lindsay Buroker

96. “I dont suppose i can wear my flamingo tie""it's a bit festive,given the occastion""Cant wear it to the opera","Cant wear it to a funeral. Cant use it to hang myself. it's a bit useless, as ties go.” - John Green

97. “Eventually, though, I came to the conclusion that I was the male equivalent of a Toyota Camry. You know: No one ever says, "I have to have a Toyota Camry." But most people who spend some time in a Camry start to like it. "It's pretty reliable," they think. "It doesn't have a lot of problems, and it's not bad to look at. You know what? I'd probably prefer a nicer car. But I can live with a Camry.” - Justin Halpern

98. “I love you, Derek!”Jason tried to drag Haley back to her seat, but she fought him tooth and nail.“I love you, Derek!”“He knows, woman! He’s known since the first inning. Let the man focus,” hesaid.” - R.L. Mathewson

99. “What’s wrong with my clothing?' she asked, glancing down the length of her body, clothed in a tank top and shorts.He helped her up, unable to stifle a grin. 'Let’s just say women do not dress like that in 1863.” - Suzannah Daniels

100. “There's a funny thing about everything, even if you have to make it up!” - Jessica Jo Ann Thometz

101. “Odd that I couldn’t catch any of your dream,” Bones went on. “Normally your dreams are like background music to me.” - Jeaniene Frost

102. “All through the night, men looked at the sky and were saddened by the stars.” - Joseph Heller

103. “A dutiful wife enables a good man to add her hands to his own for self-applause.” - Tom Morrison

104. “Some dumbass outside the reserve thinks you're wearing a butterfly on your arm, you'll get your ass kicked," Rafael said.” - Rose Christo

105. “How did you kill the Ashman in the forest last year?”“I shot him with an arrow.”“What kind of arrow?”“A sharp one.”Nate rolled his eyes. “Really, dude? A sharp one?” - Chelsea Fine

106. “Get out of bed and feed me already, person!” - Rachel Cohn & David Levithan

107. “You know how before you buy a house you hire someone to come check it out and write a homebuyer's report? Someone should do that for husbands. Before you get married, you should have a complete inspection to find out what's broken, if it's fixable, and how much it will cost to repair.” - Richard Paul Evans

108. “I can’t believe how much this place has grown,” Hazel muttered. The taxi driver grinned in the rearview mirror. “Been a long time since you visited, miss?”“About seventy years,” Hazel said. The driver slid the glass partition closed and drove on in silence.” - Rick Riordan

109. “I swear, when that woman dies, she'll be deader than everybody else.~Pattiecake from Laid Out and Candle Lit” - Ann Everett

110. “This story is about the Baudelaires. And they are the sort of people who know that there’s always something. Something to invent, something to read, something to bite, and something to do, to make a sanctuary, no matter how small. And for this reason, I am happy to say, the Baudelaires were very fortunate indeed.” - Lemony Snicket

111. “Xavier, you have given me more grey hairs than all my sons put together.’ Saul frowned, then corrected himself. ‘To be fair, you and Zed. Just try not to add to them tonight.” - Joss Stirling

112. “Throughout this book I will use the terms African-American, black, and Negro interchangeably. There is rarely a logic to it, so please try not to overthink it.” - Baratunde R. Thurston

113. “I don’t know if you have had the same experience, but the snag I always come up against when I’m telling a story is this dashed difficult problem of where to begin it.” - P.G. Wodehouse

114. “Every day, each day is the most important day of your life.” - Art Hochberg

115. “He tapped into the Zen of ignorance, the enlightenment of absurdity.” - Christopher Moore

116. “No wonder everyone is keen to put their feet up and let Fate look after them. It's rather like your granddad. Or a very hands-on organised person, sort of your own personal PA. Only in my experience Fate is no such thing, and the same goes for his little brother, Destiny. Quite frankly they’ve made a real mess of things where I’m concerned. So from now on they can bugger off and stop meddling. I’m taking charge of my own life, and when it comes to love, Fate can mind its own bloody business.” - Alexandra Potter

117. “It could have been a thief or a murderer. I considered crying out. A thief would run away, but a murderer would murder me. On the other hand, the murderer would probably murder me if I didn't too. That was his whole thing.” - Yahtzee Croshaw

118. “Given the choice between eating this cupcake or watching Ryan Gosling and Jon Hamm wrestle each other for the privilege of having sex with me, I’d choose the cupcake.” - Lisa Kleypas

119. “Mankind's biggest blunder, ignorance. Mankind's second, infallible.” - M.T. Dismuke

120. “There was no Lo to behold.” - Vladimir Nabokov

121. “Domenica uno sguattero di Nancy, Vital Frérotte, è morto per una sbadataggine. Era appena tornato da Lourdes, definitivamente guarito dalla tubercolosi.” - Félix Fénéon

122. “The television was on Florida Cable News. A gray-haired man behind the anchor desk reported near tragedy at a state motor vehicle office, where a man who had failed the eye exam pulled a gun and fired fifteen shots at the staff, hitting nobody.” - Tim Dorsey

123. “Is he a scumbag in training?” Richard glanced at the gunman. “At least have the decency to hold the gun properly, you fool. If you don’t know how, pass it to someone who does. I’m not going to suffer being shot at by anything less than a full- fledged lowlife. (Richard)” - Ilona Andrews

124. “Some people say a person receives a position in this church through revelation, and others say they get it through inspiration, but I say they get it through relation. If I hadn't been related to Heber C. Kimball I wouldn't have been a damn thing in this church.” - J. Golden Kimball

125. “Some people think they have to marry someone just like themselves. Well, if you want to do that, it's ok. It might be more interesting though if you marry someone who is not just like you. Hmmmmmmm.” - Art Hochberg

126. “When someone says, 'I admire your character,' I never know whether the person is talking about my ethics or referring to someone in one of my books.” - Stifyn Emrys

127. “You know how they say you have to first love yourself before you love another? I did. I didn't like it. I'm WAY too high maintenance.” - Vasu Ritu Primlani

128. “TANDAAN: your mind is your weapon. Pagyamanin natin ito at magiging handa tayo sa gulo na dulot ng paghihimagsik ng puso at bird.” - Ramon Bautista

129. “The king killed his brother, who was actually king, so that he could be king. Then the dead king’s wife and baby disappeared, on account the baby would’ve been king, so the brother probably killed them, too. They do that kind of thing all the time, kings do. They can kill anybody they don’t like.” - Sage Blackwood

130. “The whole experience reminded me of my own 'old lady' phase that I went through in high school while I was reading Somerset Maugham... The embroidered sweaters, the costume jewelry... I remember genuinely WANTING to be old then, to act as if the business of my life was already all but over, and that I was preternaturally wise because of it...God, the stupid things you'll do to try and meet boys...” - Chris Ware