Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.

Ridicule is the best test of truth.

The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.

Ridicule is a terrible witherer of the flower of the imagination. It binds us where we should be free.

I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that does not have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular.

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.