“It was a family joke that Lydia's domestic tendencies were somehow misplaced when she was created.”
“There was a family joke that Lucy's first words were, "Nicholas is bugging me!”
“Never joke about the job of your friend. He/she feeds their family with it and it affects their dignity!”
“Sometimes When You Are Serious, People Thought You Were Joking, But Sometimes When You Are Joking, People Thought You Were Serious”
“There were jokes under fascism and the Nazis too, but those systems did not create an absurd, laugh-a-minute reality like communism.”
“Her name was a joke, she said, like Karen Cutter's family nick-naming her Cookie, or poor Marie Antoinette Jones, whose parents had liked the sound of the name but who were a tad weak in French history.”