I kind of was raised at The Comedy Store by comedians. When you see my dad on stage before me and then you see me, you'll see where I got a lot of my stuff.
If you want to study writing, read Dickens
And I really do think that the difficulty of research makes it more real to you than punching a thing to find out how many men were killed at this particular action.
I've never known, at least a modern historical instance, where the truth wasn't superior to distortion in every way.
I took five years on the first volume, five years on the second volume, and ten years on the third volume.
Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home.
I've never shown anybody a draft of anything.
Must I dwell in slavery's night And all pleasure take its flight Far beyond my feeble sight, Forever?
It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph.
At times in my life, I have been utterly lonely. At other times, I've had disgusting infectious diseases. Try admitting these things in our culture.
The world is forever babbling of originality; but there never yet was an original man, in the sense intended by the world; the first man himself--who according to the Rabbins was also the first author--not being an original; the only original author being God.