“You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.”

— Art Buchwald

Interview in The New York Times Book Review (1985), as quoted in Pundits, Poets, and Wits: An Omnibus of American Newspaper Columns‎ (1990) by Karl Ernest Meyer, p. 308.

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