Paul F. Tompkins Quotes

I could do without 'cool' publications calling me 'mom jazz.' But I laughed all the way to the bank, baby.

At this point, we've ripped on everyone.

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

Social satire has been around since people have been around.

I don't like the ironic tone that our pop culture, in the world, has taken. Everything is 'ironic.' Everything is 'cool.'

Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.

It is difficult not to write satire.

I like to write a lot of satire.

Bad times for the Republic are great times for satire.

I think satire is most effective when you love the thing you're satirizing rather than... have a vendetta against it.

As a former writer for the 'National Lampoon,' I've probably contributed to the sea of sarcasm in which we live.

In a satire, you need foolishness.

Let's see... Rihanna! Work, work, work, work, work, work; OK, what? How much work does it take to move your behind, honey? I don't understand the job situation you're going through.

I've never been much drawn towards satire of any kind.

It's like, 'Twilight' was voted the worst movie of all time, and I'm like,'Can I please have the worst movie of all time? Please? Half of that?'

She's magnificent," Radius said, smiling proudly as he vaulted the steps and followed Aphrodite. "I can think of a lot of m words that she could be. Magnificent isn't one of them," Stark grumbled. "Mental and mean pop into my head," I said. "Manure pops into mine," Stark said. "Manure?" "I think she's full of shot, but it's too many words and doesn't start with an m, so that's as close as I could get," he said.

Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.

I'm hungry, Garion, and I don't think well when I'm hungry." "That might explain a lot," Beldin noted blandly. "We should have fed you more often when you were younger."

I'm going to put that on my gravestone. "He created such a category of unwanted pop culture - Famous for directing unwanted cultural references".

Amen, sister, ... All apologies to Tom Cruise.

The way things are going the faces on next year's bubble-gum cards will be lawyers.

You're nothing but an apple, a silly t-shirt, a catchphrase and a stupid haircut.

Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony.

By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.