Cant Quote by Tom Lehrer

You can't be satirical and not be offensive to somebody.

— Tom Lehrer

Things are much more complicated. Feminism versus pornography, for example. There are a lot of feminists who think it is bad, but others think…

— Tom Lehrer

Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift. . . . The net result of Naked Lunch will be to make people shudder…

— Jack Kerouac

Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical.

— Joey Skaggs

“he writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated lo neliness, and a sense of…

— Renata Adler

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers. My prayer was to be immortalized by unintelligent gibbons on a satirical Web…

— Oscar Wilde

The inspiration comes from everywhere, from what I grew up with. There's so much silliness and nonsense in the world that we regard as…

— Jasper Fforde

Really, I protest-what is left for the satirical mind to invent when reality so surpasses it?

— Jude Morgan

Some playwrights are obvious influences on younger writers. Arthur Miller (realistic, politically engaged dramas) and Christopher Durang (satirical dark comedies) are examples. But August…

— Daniel J. Sullivan

My way of dealing with not really fitting in at my very crappy New England high school and junior high was to write sketch…

— Susanna Fogel

We cannot have a society in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States. If somebody is able…

— Barack Obama

“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana