“Satire is enjoyable compensation for being forced to think.”
“Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.”
“Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.”
“The fact of being alive compensated for what life did to one.”
“I'm gonna enjoy being old I think I'll be awesome at it.”
“A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like the two weights pulling at the arms of a pair of scales.”