As quoted in "The Trump Era Is Al Franken’s Time to Shine" by Graham Vyse, in New Republic (2 February 2017) https://newrepublic.com/article/140342/trump-era-al-frankens-time-shine
Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2015
“It is difficult not to write satire.”
Difficile est saturam non scribere.
I, line 30.
Satires, Satire I
“I think the people who say we need satire often mean, "We need satire of them, not of us."”
AV Club interview (2000)
The Tale of Taleisin
Context: I have fled in the shape of a raven of prophetic speech,
in the shape of a satirizing fox,
in the shape of a sure swift,
in the shape of a squirrel vainly hiding.
I have fled in the shape of a red deer,
in the shape of iron in a fierce fire,
in the shape of a sword sowing death and disaster,
in the shape of a bull, relentlessly struggling.
“Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.”
Interview with Nabokov http://lib.ru/NABOKOW/Inter06.txt_with-big-pictures.html conducted on September 25, 27, 28, 29, 1966, at Montreux, Switzerland and published in Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature, vol. VIII, no. 2, spring 1967.
Source: Strong Opinions
Reflections on Various Subjects (1665–1678), II. On Difference of Character
Source: The Essential Lenny Bruce: his original unexpurgated satirical routines
“Tomorrow is a satire on today,
And shows its weakness.”
This is a quotation from "The Old Man's Relapse", a poem addressed to Edward Young, but written by Lord Melcombe.
Misattributed
“A satirical poet is the check of the laymen on bad priests.”
Preface to the Fables.
Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700)
