"The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature."

"Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man."

"Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility."

"It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption."

"I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction."

"History is the science of things which are not repeated."

"Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess."

"There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations."