Catharsis isn't art. You can't rely on catharsis to get a laugh. Because guess what?

People do laugh when something's shocking, but that is, to me, the absolute fakest of laughs. That's not something that sustains a television series, or a movie, or even 45 minutes of a stand-up set at Carolines. Mindy Kaling

Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill. Shinichi Suzuki

People don't want to be plagued by not knowing-they want answers. Michael Pitt

Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in. David Bowie

I'm not a misogynist, so you can dispense with that. I think I've done wonders for the feminist movement. Nick Cave

It is obvious that the RUC is no longer accepted as an impartial police force. Jack Lynch

I do my own make-up a lot of the time, and I'm very involved in what I wear. Jessie J

I can only pay my electric bill for my last two years on my acting. Piper Perabo

We need to punch back against the extremes of both the left and the right and define the terms of the debate ourselves. John Avlon

Slavery is nothing to joke about. The history of this nation's involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke. Douglas Wilder