"With this blistering salvo of poetic gutshots Lawson has proven himself Bizarroâ€™s true bard, its mad laureate. Switching from dark whimsy to retina-blast shock to political outrage without missing a beat, The Troublesome Amputee is a powerful collection of pitch-black verse."

-- Jeremy Robert Johnson

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“Whatever way uncertainty is approached, probability is the only sound way to think about it.”

Source : "Understanding Uncertainty". Book by Dennis Lindley (Chapter 5 "The Rules of Probability", p. 71), 2006.
“I'm quite encouraged by the finding that voters do value checks and balances and accountability. I think it's very heartening. And it has been interpreted to mean that Singaporeans do find that at the system level the institutions have to function with some sort of balance regardless of whether the policies are good or bad in that sense.”
“Everything not saved will be lost.”
“It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.”
“Since childhood Iâ€™d been suspected of imagination”
“Producer Ed Pressman had a book about Diane Arbus - it's the only biography that exists - and there had been many Diane Arbus scripts. Many. I don't even know how many over the years. And it's sort of a cursed project, for lots of reasons. There's probably some pile somewhere of all these weird attempts, all these portraitures that can't get made.”
“Richard Dawkins says he can't be sure God doesn't exist. Well, you know what I do when I'm not sure about something? I go on a big crusade about it and write a bunch of books on the subject. No, wait, that sounds more like what someone with a mental disorder would do. That's one of the crazy things about lots of atheists: They're whole movement is supposed to be about being logical and reasonable, yet they tend to rail against religion is a very mindless way that doesn't seem to serve any more purpose than a tantrum. Perhaps I just don't understand their strong faith in not having faith.”
“I was most incorrigibly devoted to versifying, and all my spouse's wholesome admonitions had no manner of effect on me; in short, I believe this scribbling itch is an incurable disease ...”

Source : Laetitia Pilkington (1997). “Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington”, p.56, University of Georgia Press

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