Quotes from Mark Russell

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.

It makes me think. Maybe the only meaning to life is that which we get from each other.

When you trick somebody into participating in a small-time fraud, it's called a 'scam.' But when the scam is so big that people have no choice but to participate, it's called 'economics.

Because if civilization is going to last, if it's going to amount to anything more than just a place to watch TV and get cheap snake meat, it will only be because we've learned to do one thing.' 'And what's that?' 'To care for people who mean nothing to us.

What makes a person's words and actions worth remembering are how they are different from everyone else's.

Of course, with any new technology, the question in the back of everyone's mind is 'Can I have sex with it or use it to kill people?' -Flintstones Vol. 2: Bedrock Bedlam

The world is on fire, young man. As writers, it is only proper that we do what we can to warn people. But in telling the truth to the world, don't lie to yourself. Write whatever you want. Tell the truth. Just don't imagine that you are changing anything. Like I said, people just want to have a good time. -Snagglepuss

Son, in life you do not fight battles because you expect to win... ...you fight them merely because they need to be fought. -Snagglepuss

A Brief History of the Universe: Billions of days ago, atoms began joining together to form stars and planets. On these planets, cells came together to form plants, animals, and people, and then people started gathering to form civilizations. And do you know why all these atoms, cells, and people came together? Because nothing wants to be alone! The invisible force which controls the universe and sets all things in motion? It's called "loneliness!

We are a species hungry for illusion. A powerful illusion not only convinces us it's real, it becomes more meaningful to us than reality.

Death, like life, finds meaning in our connections to each other. Grief is bearable only because it can be shared.

The world is exactly as it appears, if only you look hard enough.

No offense, but it seems like the whole point of civilization is to get someone else to do your killing for you.

Sometimes you become so focused on protecting people from danger that you become the danger.

The purpose of art is subversion. Art is telling the world how it's killing you. How its institutions have failed you. In the end, any culture worth damn is made by subversives. Because art is what tells the world it needs to change. Power merely redecorates it.

Everything you do, everything you'll ever accomplish, your life's work, your kids' life's work: horseshit. (Ecclesiastes) [God Is Disappointed in You]

I do jokes about what's funny, and both sides are funny.