Source: True Believer
As quoted in "Spoonful of Sugar : Natasha Lyonne’s Sweet Comeback" by Shira Levine, in Heeb Magazine (20 January 2009)
“What is this thing called love?
This funny thing called love?”
"What Is This Thing Called Love?" from Wake Up and Dream (1929)
Context: What is this thing called love?
This funny thing called love?
Just who can solve this mystery?
Why should it make a fool of me?
ESOF (2010).
Context: Life, like art, is purposeless and unpredictable. That’s what makes it beautiful and rare! In life, we are given the choice between three paths: utopia, illusion or nonsense. The funny thing is, none of us get the joke.
“Theres one thing I wanna know:
What's so funny 'bout Peace, Love, and Understanding?”
"(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding" on The New Favourites of Brinsley Schwarz (1974); the song later became a hit as sung by Elvis Costello. ( Nicke Lowe performance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7txCdLCP9U - Elvis Costello & Nick Lowe joint performance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWdh7ERLb3E)
Context: As I walk through
This wicked world
Searchin' for light in the darkness of insanity,
I ask myself
Is all hope lost?
Is there only pain and hatred, and misery? And each time I feel like this inside,
Theres one thing I wanna know:
What's so funny 'bout Peace, Love, and Understanding?
Source: Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
Source: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch. 2
Act V
1910s, The Doctor's Dilemma (1911)
Source: The Doctor's Dilemma: A Tragedy
“There was this funny thing of anything could happen now that we realized everything had.”
Source: Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
“I just draw what I think is funny, and I hope other people think it is funny, too.”
Address to the Sonoma County Press Club as quoted in the Sonoma County Press Democrat (13 February 2000)
