“The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.”

“The dangerous thing about truth is the way it changes depending on how you're looking at it. One man's gospel truth is another man's blasphemous lie. The dangerous thing about people is the way we'll try to kill anyone whose truth doesn't agree with ours.”

“Because the truth holds the greatest magic, the greatest beauty, and sometimes the greatest danger,”

“They said, “You are a savage and dangerous woman.”I am speaking the truth. And the truth is savage and dangerous.”

“He is a man, I think," he said, "who cares for nothing but a joke. He is a dangerous man."Lambert laughed in the act of lifting some macaroni to his mouth."Dangerous!" he said. "You don't know little Quin, sir!""Every man is dangerous," said the old man, without moving, "Who cares only for one thing. I was once dangerous myself.”

“Strict seriousness was far more dangerous than any joke.”