"Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it or you don't. You can't attain it. There are terrible forms of professional humor, the humorists' humor. That can be awful. It depresses me because it is artificial. You can't always be humorous, but a professional humorist must. That is a sad phenomenon."

-- Heinrich BÃ¶ll

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“The percent likelihood of a society becoming physically violent if it is physically affectionate towards its infants and tolerant of premarital sexual behavior is 2 percent. The probability of this relationship occurring by chance is 125,000 to one. I am not aware of any other developmental variable that has such a high degree of predictive validity.”
“When you have the enthusiasm and the passion, you end up figuring how to excel.”
“...The human perception of this energy first begins with a heightened sensitivity to beauty.”
“Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.”
“Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases.”
“I'm not good at accepting help.”
“Looking back, I've learned that everyone is searching for three things: Identity, community, and a sense of individual purpose. These are fundamental, and if a person feels marginalized or disenfranchised, they're likely to turn to something negative, maybe drugs, maybe promiscuity, or maybe a white supremacist group.”
“As I get older, I just prefer to knit.”

Source : Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.newsweek.com. September 19, 2004.

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