Krassner Quotes

#1. The real story of our times is seldom told in the horse-puckey-filled memoirs of dopey, self-serving presidents or generals, but in the outrageous, demented lives of guys like Lenny Bruce, Giordano Bruno, Scott Fitzgerald - and Paul Krassner. The burrs under society's saddle. The pains in the ass.

Harlan Ellison

#2. This is a difficult country to look too different in - the United States of Advertising, as Paul Krassner puts it - and if you are too skinny or too tall or dark or weird or short or frizzy or homely or poor or nearsighted, you get crucified. I did. But

Anne Lamott

#3. Irreverence is our only sacred cow.

Paul Krassner

#4. Awareness precedes choice and choice precedes results.

Robin S. Sharma

#5. For years, reality has been nipping at the heels of satire. Now, it's finally caught up. I don't need to make this stuff up.

Paul Krassner

#6. Living should be perpetual and universal benediction.

Wei Wu Wei

#7. Avoid internalizing society's sexism, racism, ageism - pick an ism, any ism.

Paul Krassner

#8. As long as the government can arbitrarily decide which substances are legal and which are illegal, then those who remain behind bars for illegal substances are political prisoners

Paul Krassner

#9. I think, for sure, 'Saturday Night Fever' and 'Pulp Fiction' were kind of bookends for - or the pillars of - my career.

John Travolta

#10. If there is to be any proving of our humanity it must be by revolutionary means

Walter Rodney

#11. Watch yourself as though you were observing a Martian.

Paul Krassner

#12. Turn, Liz said, trying not to hide her impatience at being forced to read at non-speed-of-light pace.

Ally Carter

#13. English is my second language. Laughter is my first.

Paul Krassner

#14. There was a guy with extra millions in the bank. And he spent all his free time, all his energy, spending his money. His cars, his houses, his vacations. Just like the rich bankers here in Luxembourg, whose business was making money and whose passion was spending it.

Chris Pavone

#15. One - about cigarettes - I was pleased to see that anticigarette ad on the back issue of Hustler. I'm more offended by seeing ads for cigarettes in magazines than pictures of vaginas, because one kills and the other gives life - and I think that's an important difference.

Paul Krassner

#16. Where the body went, the mind followed.

Rick Yancey

#17. People don't like to be lectured to, but if you can make them laugh, their defenses come down, and for the time being they've accepted whatever truth is embedded in your humor.

Paul Krassner

#18. I think [audiences are] more aware now of the contradictions in mainstream culture, the phony piety that permeates society, the inhumane hypocrisy.

Paul Krassner

#19. Pope John Paul would be more popular if he called himself Pope John Paul George and Ringo.

Paul Krassner

#20. In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fraulein Noether was the most significant mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.

Albert Einstein

#21. He wished that they could go through life like this. That he could physically put himself between Eleanor and the world.

Rainbow Rowell

#22. False humility is better than no humility at all.

Paul Krassner

#23. Since I was both an atheist and an absurdist, I had decided that the most absurd thing I could do would be to develop an intimate relationship with the God I didn't believe in.

Paul Krassner

#24. I am neither for conformity nor non-conformity. I am for individuality. If one's individuality is in effect non-conformity, then so be it. But basically, one's individuality consists of conformity
to one's self.

Paul Krassner

#25. I Used To Believe In Reincarnation, But That Was In a Past Life.

Paul Krassner

#26. The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#27. Never forget that it is the spirit with which you endow your work that makes it useful or futile.

Adelaide Hasse

#28. There is indeed a business like show business. It's the news.

Paul Krassner

#29. I had become an atheist at the age of thirteen, when atomic bombs were dropped on Japan.

Paul Krassner

#30. I guess I'm a spiritual secularist, if that's not an oxymoron. My paths of secularism and spirituality are the same: I try to do the appropriate thing at each moment.

Paul Krassner

#31. Listen to the speeches, one after another telling the audience what it already knows, evoking applause with necessary cliches, no longer shocking anybody with the shocking facts of the war because you can become so jaded with horror that you develop an emotional callous.

Paul Krassner

#32. You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.

Kurt Vonnegut