Good comedy doesn't have to be a comedy idea.
There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
Only silence perfects silence.
Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
The white sun like a moth on a string circles the southpole.
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composure of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life. Poetry is a verbal means to a nonverbal source. It is a motion to no-motion, to the still point of contemplation and deep realization.
Sometimes the intensity and the grind of doing television can wear you down, but at the same time there's something about the repetition, the sheer mass of work that you do that's also liberating.
If I had been playing for money I would have complained a long time ago that I was underpaid.
As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.
In the beginning was simplicity.