“Satire is enjoyable compensation for being forced to think.”— Edgar Johnson Related Quotes “People often believed they were safer in the light, thinking monsters only came out at night. But safety – like light – is a façade. Underneath, the whole world is drenched in darkness. The only way to truly be safer, was to accept the dark, to walk in it with eyes wide open, to be a part of it. To keep your enemies close, so that you could no longer discern where they ended and you began.”— C.J. Roberts “We have to allow God to do a work in us before He can do a work through us.”— Wendy Pope “My parents divorced when I was very, very young, but they maintained an incredibly amicable relationship. They were great partners, they were great parents, and they were great friends throughout my whole life until I was about 25, at which point they realized that they could relinquish; they could call it and move on.”— Natalie Zea