“The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.”
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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
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.
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.