“A satirist is never certain whether he/she will be acclaimed or punished.”

“Satire is enjoyable compensation for being forced to think.”

“Satire is the antidote to Pollyanna and Dr. Pangloss. It focuses our gaze sharply upon the the contrast between things as they are and as they should be.”

“Certainly the past doesn't exist anywhere outside our own heads. I have never touched, kicked, or felt the past.”

“Want to make it a date, haircut?' she asked. 'As soon as I can scrape together the cash for the train ticket?'What's with the "haircut," kiddo?' he asked. 'I thought we were past that.'We'll never be past that,' she said.”

“Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.”

“I was cautious in what I said before the young lady; for I could not be sure that she was sane; and, in fact, there was a certain restless brilliancy about her eyes that half led me to imagine she was not.”