“ Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives. Ian Frazier
“ Every once in a while, people need to be in the presence of things that are really far away. Ian Frazier
“ I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself. Ian Frazier
“ With reporting, if you work hard, you can usually pull something out. But writing humor doesn't respond to working hard, necessarily. I mean, you could just sit there and look at the page all day and… Ian Frazier
“ When I go to Indian reservations in the West, and especially to the Pine Ridge Reservation, I sometimes feel unsure where to put my foot when I open the car door. The very ground is different from whe… Ian Frazier
“ America to me is so varied and exciting. I always feel nostalgia for the place I'm not in, and then I get there and find myself in a traffic jam going into the Lincoln Tunnel, and I think, 'God, why w… Ian Frazier
“ Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece. Ian Frazier
“ America is a leap of the imagination. From its beginning, people had only a persistent idea of what a good country should be. The idea involved freedom, equality, justice, and the pursuit of happiness… Ian Frazier
“ One very important key to maintaining our daily sanity is a simple scheduling tactic I call Putting Things the Hell Off. Ian Frazier
“ It reflects like an optical instrument and responds to changes in the weather so sensitively that it seems like a part of the sky rather than of the land. And along with all that, Baikal is distinctly… Ian Frazier
“ Then a beat-up car lurched into sight towing an even more beat-up car. As the cars came near, I saw that they were connected back to front by a loop made of two seat belts buckled to each other. That… Ian Frazier
