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Tragedy Is When I Cut My Finger. Comedy Is When You Fall Into An Open Sewer And Die.

I Love [nikolai] Gogol's Great Eye For Idiot Behavior. Gogol Said That Life Is So Tragic, So Stupendously Sad That We'd Better Laugh A Lot And Enjoy Ourselves. You Either Get A Sense Of Humor Going Or You Go Under.

I Started With [leo] Tolstoy And I Was Overwhelmed. Tolstoy Writes Like An Ocean, In Huge, Rolling Waves, And It Doesn't Look Like It Was Processed Through His Thinking. It Feels Very Natural. You Don't Question Whether Tolstoy's Right Or Wrong. His Philosophy Is Housed In Interrelating Characters, So It's Not Up For Grabs.

You Cannot Have Fun With Anything That You Don't Love Or Admire Or Respect.

Organizations Like The Cia And The Fbi Are Still Kind Of Supermen, Kind Of Ss Troops: We're Blond And The Best And Everyone Else Should Be Incinerated. They Don't Know Right From Wrong. That's What Makes A Satire Of These Government Bureaus Really Funny.