The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature.
Everyone goes down the aisle with half the story hidden.
First electricity, now telephones. Sometimes I feel as if I'm living in an H. G. Wells novel.
If I were to search for logic, I would not look for it among the English upper class.
No family is ever what it seems from the outside.
Principles are like prayers; noble, of course, but awkward at a party.
There's nothing simpler than avoiding people you don't like. Avoiding one's friends, that's the real test.
Bill Maher and I are on against each other, and we're friends. He can do my show any time he wants, and I've done Politically Incorrect several times. There's no reason to think competition has to be adversarial.
As a comic and as a nurse, it's important to look calm on the surface when you're absolutely crapping yourself inside. So, if someone is waving a machete at you, which has happened to me when I was a nurse, it's important to make that person feel that you're in control.
I am a misanthropic humanist. . . Do I like people? They're great, IN THEORY.
Excuses are a list of self imposed obstacles that prevent you from having a better life.