47 Quotes by Gene Weingarten

I believe that the fragile-flower, idea-intolerant society of victimhood that is being cultivated in many colleges today is really bad.

When my daughter was a senior in high school, I remember noticing, almost in passing, that her friends were very cute. Which made me realize her friends' fathers probably found Molly very cute.

One thing I am learning from the kitten is that everything he is doing seems to be in preparation for murder.

I am not saying Rubin Carter was guilty. I am saying he was very likely guilty.

It's as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots,

We want to believe that the world is understandable and controllable and unthreatening, that if we follow the rules, we'll be okay. So, when this kind of thing happens to other people, we need to put them in a different category from us. We don't want to resemble them, and the fact that we might is too terrifying to deal with. So, they have to be monsters.

Johnny Hart became much less funny after he found sobriety, and religion, around the same time.

Mostly, you become a writer not because you want to get rich or famous, but because you have to write; because there is something inside that must come out.

It is a cliche, and it is also true, that humor springs from existential pain - from a need to blunt the awareness that life is essentially a fatal disease of unpredictable symptoms and unknown duration.