I've studied men from my topsy-turvy Close, and I reckon, rather true. Some are fine fellows: some, right scurvy; Most, a dash between the two.
Johnny Hart became much less funny after he found sobriety, and religion, around the same time.
The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right.
It is a cliche, and it is also true, that humor springs from existential pain - from a need to blunt the awareness that life is essentially a fatal disease of unpredictable symptoms and unknown duration.
Mostly, you become a writer not because you want to get rich or famous, but because you have to write; because there is something inside that must come out.
The verb "Garland" should be created. It would mean to unfairly put a stinking albatross around someone's neck, to make him unemployable.
I like to eat alone in restaurants, with a book, particularly if I am out of town, alone, on business. It's relaxing. I feel not even a twinge of embarrassment. Is this gender-related? Is there a lingering feeling among women that if they are alone in public, they will be judged to be spinsters or spinsters-to-be?
He [Barack Obama] might have a pen, and he might have a phone, but what he does not have is the constitutional power to run this country like a dictator.
If I'm writing something and I'm not feeling mischievous, then I know it's not going to be great.
A good deed is a good deed.
This country to-day [is] the last stronghold of freedom, standing like a rock in a tide that is threatened to submerge the world.