TWERPS
“In order to bite the buttons off the back seats of taxicabs. That’s the only reason twerps do it. It’s all that turns them on.”
– Kurt Vonnegut, on why a person would insert a set of false teeth between the cheeks of his (or her) ass.
From Paris Review.
Unfortunately, you can’t read the whole Vonnegut interview online. The Dorothy Parker one is really great though. Her every thought and opinion is so clever and witty, people assume that the cleverness is the whole point, that she’s not serious or doesn’t mean what she says. Or at least she assumed that people assumed this, and she was probably right. It’s either that, or because she was, you know, female.
“A ’smartcracker’ they called me, and that makes me sick and unhappy. There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it, wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.”