Quotes about humor

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  1. You’re either being terrifically subtle or making no sense at all.

    p. 100

  2. So he wasn’t dead. That was probably supposed to be a good thing.

    p. 171

  3. Agon wondered what god Cenaria had offended to deserve such a king.

    p. 158

  4. It wouldn’t be the first time his sharp tongue had cut his own throat.

    p. 64

  5. A solicitor is a man who does worse things within the law than most crooks do outside it.

    p. 99

  6. They had told us how important courts were for protecting our sacred rights to Privacy and Individuality, and how helpful a judge could be, but you somehow got the idea that it was a good idea to stay away from courts altogether.

    p. 91

  7. Smart is smart. I’m glad there’s some around somewhere.

    p. 8

  8. He thought, looking at the cat, if only you were the intelligent species on this world. And then, smiling wryly, maybe you are.

    p. 108

  9. He carried his bag and was accompanied by a nurse with a deliberately impassive face—the sort of face that seemed to say, “I don’t care what you die of, I intend to be efficient about my part of it.”

    p. 165

  10. The large picture of the heron on the far wall began to fade. When it was gone it was replaced by the head of a handsome man with the falsely serious stare in his eyes that is cultivated by politicians, faith healers, and evangelists.

    p. 113

  11. It's like the old dilemma: You can't get a job without experience, but you can't get experience because no one will give you a job.

  12. Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit.