#Irony

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

"Even things that are true can be proved."

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

"Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony."

"I love the idea of things being strict and things being uniform. That's the reason why I surround each collection with humor or irony. I want to make sure that it's not too serious and that there is some element that throws it off because otherwise that would make it really boring. There's always a story that's somewhat fantastical."

"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."

"My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony."

"Thank heaven for people who are satisfied with facts that conform to the reality they wish to believe."

"Even English Language doesn't provide you with the Synonyms of the word Success."

"The most dangerous irony is, people are angry with others because of their own incompetence."

"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."

"I paid, got up, walkedto the door, openedit.I heard the mansay, "that guy'snuts."out on the street Iwalked northfeelingcuriouslyhonored."

"Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it."

"I quote others only in order the better to express myself."

"Scriptures, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based."

"A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading."

"Somewhere fate laughs in her far-off country, because now I am the human and it is Grace I will lose again and again, immer wieder, always the same, every winter, losing more of her each year, unless I find a cure."

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

"Faith is a luxury for those who are able to ignore what the rest of us must see every day. Pessimism, distrust, and irony are the holy trinity of my religion, irony in particular."

"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."