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"Of all the things about de Sade, I would argue he is funny. A lot of people didn't understand de Sade. No. 1, he is a very good writer, and No. 2, he had the courage to talk about a lot of things that in public, even now, almost nobody has the courage to talk about. He would do it with a kind of funny way - not the stories themselves, but the way he tells them. He is never serious."
"From not the gravest of Divines, Accept for once some serious Lines."
"Probably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without one's willingness to be alone for sustained periods of time, which is not to say that one must live alone, obsessively."
"A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager."
"I hate the way the English have of not being serious about being serious, I really hate it."
"Burroughs's voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American."
"Isn’t it wonderful the way the world holds both the deeply serious, and the unexpectedly mirthful?"
"If you're serious, you really understand that it's important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you're the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you're funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity."
"One of the problems we have as writers is we don't take ourselves seriously while writing; being serious is setting aside a time and saying if it comes, good; if it doesn't come, good, I'll just sit here."
"You know, I never trust people who don't laugh, who said, "I am serious" and act as if they put airplane glue on the back of their hands and stuck the glue to their foreheads. I think, "You're not serious; you're boring as hell.""
"Is there anything so grave and serious as an ass?"
"There might be some serious fun in politics."
