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• Humor is the affectionate communication of insight. Leo Roste
• Satire is focused bitterness. Leo Roste
• Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms.
  It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist....
• If you're going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it. -- Leo Roste
• Second-rate people hire third-rate people. -- Leo Rosten's law
• Conservative, n.: One who admires radicals centuries after they're dead. -- Leo C. Roste
• Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad. -- Leo Rosten [on W. C. Fields]
• Machines certainly can solve problems, store information, correlate, and play games -- but not with pleasure.
  -- Leo Roste...