Quotes & Jokes by David Cross / page 6

We mostly get together and have fun. It's a great place to play music with a small group of nice people.

I don't think of my opponents in the sense that I don't think of them consciously, I don't steer it one way or the other.

I hate bumper stickers, you can't sum anything up. All you do is paint yourself in some caricaturist corner.

I love Tinkle, it's really the most fun I've had in years.

I remember being a kid and the Vietnam War was huge and looking at Watergate.

It's not about trying to be funny all the time. It's more of a document that hopefully is funny.

I went to a bunch of marches in New York and Washington, and you know I believe in the cause, but to march with those people takes a lot of compromise on my end.

I don't mean this to sound hyperbolic but there are increasingly, albeit really minor, similarities between now and how Germany was lulled into what happened pre-WW2.

[After having made an abortion joke] I know that can hit close to home for some people....was anyone here aborted?... (mimicking child's voice:) 'I was found in a trash can!' Okay, well, that sorta counts...

Nobody is going to be as bad for free thinking, right-minded individuals than George Bush.

My biggest problem is retaining the exact information.

Now I'm used to my daily, almost hourly, outrage at what's happening in this country.

In New York there isn't that weird palpable competitive thing where it's friendly but everyone isn't trying to top one another with jokes when you're just hanging around.

It's not an issue per say, but I would urge people to help create an atmosphere where they don't see this complete ideological divide.

I also try to think of ways to articulate the joke more economically.