Whether you like it or not, you're a national figure after five games at Notre Dame.
When people have no interest in a subject, it's very hard to get them to laugh about it.
When people have no interest in a subject, it's very hard to get them to laugh about it. If I had to write ten jokes about potholders, I don't think I could do it. But I could write ten jokes about Catholicism in the next twenty minutes.
The most oblivious people are often the happiest.
I'm a pessimist, but I have many painstakingly applied coats of optimism.
As a writer you sometimes feel the need to shake things up.
Every joke can't be dazzling. And if you think you spotted an inconsistency, you did!
I feel like somebody who just got out of prison after 40 years for something she didn't do, like I got pardoned by the governor. When dear friends deal with me with mixed emotions, it is a little like being told, 'Well, Jenny, we're glad you got sprung, really, but quite honestly we did kind of like you better when you were in jail.
Calumny is only the noise of madmen.
Don't think about art, just get it done.
She is so stubborn, her heart has an argument with her head every time it wants to beat.