“She probably thought I was making a dumb joke, but sometimes history sounded like a dumb joke. History was either a dumb joke or a cruel joke.”

“I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb - and I'm not blonde either.”

“It was one of God's jokes that such a dumb mind had been put in such an eloquent body.”

“Because you have to roll with the punches, the good and the bad. You have to keep moving forward. It's like the river - even after all the crazy things that have happened, the river's not running backwards anytime soon.”

“War stuttered, repeated its sentences, forgot its lessons, over and over.”

“If poetry is a circus, then the Big Tent we're under has to have room for a lot of different freak shows.”

“Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense.”