“Tragedy plus time equals humor”

“If you’re going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.”

“Depression doesn't wait till Monday.”

“Humor is tragedy plus time.”

“Kon’s films present a fractured, multifaceted world in which everyone has their own different reality.”

“They say 90% of the promotion of a book comes through word of mouth. But you've somehow got to get your book into the hands of those mouths first!”

“We weren't being mauled by lions.We weren't being tortured with bamboo shoots shoved under our fingernails.No Chinese water torture.No burning at the stake.We weren't even being interrogated under bright lights.If only.No, what we endured was a special kind of torture, designed especially for us by The Rat, that made me wish for a bamboo manicure. - Simon Mugford”