"Our laws governing lobbying and campaign contributions have struck the right balance between the wishes of the people and those of private industry, so why are we so quick to doubt that the same great results can be achieved by putting the government's justice-dealing branch on the same market-based course?"

-- Thomas Frank

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“I think serious situations actually make for the best kind of belly laughs. But theyre also the hardest to convert into comedy at the outset.”
“I like to think that I have no single view nor any single situation that I think things arrive from. I try to give examples of what I think are interesting questions for me.”
“I became a writer through drawing first and then a comic book obsession - Marvel Comics, in particular. I invented a world of superheroes starting in third grade with my classmate, Wai-Kwan Wong. In a classroom of forty kids, let's just say there was a lot of undirected time. But this was good because I was a dreamy boy.”

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“It's OK if Tim McGraw goes and does a movie, and it's OK if Justin Timberlake does a movie, but it's not OK for an actor to become a singer. I never understood that.”
“I don't know how you feel, but I'm pretty sick of church people. You know what they ought to do with churches? Tax them. If holy people are so interested in politics, government, and public policy, let them pay the price of admission like everybody else. The Catholic Church alone could wipe out the national debt if all you did was tax their real estate.”
“The cyborg is a kind of disassembled and reassembled, postmodern collective and personal self. This is the self feminists must code.”
“What is all our knowledge worth? We do not even know what the weather will be tomorrow.”
“Even though some people give you no respect, be intelligent when you put them in check, cause when you're ignorant, you get treated that way.”

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