I don't know now if I'm funny. I just keep talking and hope that I hit something that's funny.
If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.
If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They can teach you everything you need to know about writing.