#Irony

"O, wonder!How many goodly creatures are there here!How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,That has such people in't!"

"I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast."

"Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does."

"You could write a book about things that you can't find on-line."

"Nobody steals books but your friends."

"Even things that are true can be proved."

"With every mistake, we must surely be learning."

"That was the last cruel irony of Tobias’s life: that he doomed the woman he would have died to save."

"The irony of life is that those who wear masks often tell us more truths than those with open faces."

"My dad is so unique in what he does. It's not like I'm taking a torch from him and doing his thing. I hope I've carried from him a little bit of a sense of irony, a little bit of a wink."

"If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others."

"The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues....[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings."

"sometimes when everything seems atits worstwhen all conspiresand gnawsand the hours, days, weeksyearsseem wasted – stretched there upon my bedin the darklooking upward at the ceilingi get what many will consider anobnoxious thought:it’s still nice to beBukowski."

"Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding."

"I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize."

"I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way."

"I had a second friend come over to my house, and do you know what I called her? A refill. If relationships aren’t drinkable, why do we thirst for them so much?"

"That's the nature of being a parent, Sabine has discovered. You'll love your children far more than you ever loved your parents, and -- in the recognition that your own children cannot fathom the depth of your love -- you come to understand the tragic, unrequited love of your own parents."

"In order to grow, I promise you'll have to let go of some habits. 10 times out of 10, they'll be the habits you're most in love with."

"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it."