Shooting Up Quotations

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.

Probably there is an imperceptible touch of something permanent that one feels instinctively to adhere to true humour, whereas wit may be the mere conversational shooting up of "smartness"--a bright feather, to be blown into space the second after it is launched...Wit seems to be counted a very poor relation to Humour....Humour is never artificial.

Any idiot, especially one who is prepared to die, who has a gun, can start shooting up people.