Arches Quote by John Hodgman

My humor is very dry. To me it doesn't make sense.

— Ian MacKaye

I like an English sense of humor: dry, dirty, a little bit off. That's kind of my taste.

— Brooklyn Decker

The Australian sense of humor is very dry, sarcastic, and very undercover. Like if I tell any jokes in America, people just think I'm…

— Heath Ledger

My biggest superhero of writing is Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine fabulist. He's an amazingly perceptive writer, but also willing to make a joke.

— John Hodgman

“Sanjala sam da sam J.L.Borges, koji je nekim čudom uskrsnuo, progledao, lupio se dlanom po čelu i brzo pretvorio u - Paula Coelha.”

— Dubravka Ugrešić

“This book first arose out of a passage in [Jorge Luis] Borges, out of the laughter that shattered, as I read the passage, all…

— Michel Foucault

“The hours I spent in this anachronistic, bibliophile, Anglophile retreat were in surreal contrast to the shrieking horror show that was being enacted in…

— Christopher Hitchens

Nazi Literature in the Americas, a wicked invented encyclopedia of imaginary fascist writers and literary tastemakers, is Bolaño playing with sharp, twisting knives. As…

— Stacey D'Erasmo

“Si me quieren buscar, búsquenme en los libros. No los lean, por favor, si no obtienen placer.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Oh, Buenos Aires, I have traveled around the world, but I’ve never been separated from you,” said Argentine poet Jorge Luis Borges. And Saint…

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

“Perhaps, as Borges concludes in his story, it is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human.”

— Joshua Foer

“As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always ready to enlarge…

— William H. Gass