Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.

— Walter Kirn

Given Laughter's obsession with meaninglessness and language, maybe Foucault & Derrida deserve some fault here, too.

— Walter Kirn

Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?

— Walter Kirn

Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of newly elected Tea Party types is running into the fact that the Tea Parties have only the high volume setting on their amplifiers, just like Pain. They're like a couple having a fight at a funeral; politely sotto voce, then suddenly bursting out fortissimo with their plaints and accusations.

— Alexander Cockburn

This is how it works now with the news: the story begins with a moral, then a narrative is fashioned to support it.

— Walter Kirn

When Laughter himself speaks, and we find out his real influences are Spider-Man, 'Gnome Chomsky,' Taylor Swift, and Dr. Bonner, then what?

— Walter Kirn