Christopher Moore

As Richard Pryor was to Eddie Murphy, that's what Kurt Vonnegut was to me.

I've made a dog's breakfast of English history, geography, 'King Lear,' and the English language in general.

You can't teach someone to be funny, but you can teach comic timing. If you listen to a good comic, you can learn how to put it on a page.

The great curse of modern political life is incrementalism.

Australians and the British are very similar: If you try and stand out in any way, and you try to reach for success, someone is gonna be there to cut you down.

But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible.