Black is like the silence of the body after death, the close of life.
I'm so bad at spontaneous impressions.
I'm married but the special man is my dog, Henry.
Comedy's been really liberating for me because I've been able to sneak the singing part in through the back door.
I love people who try to keep the world in control - because the world is inherently not in control.
I always tried not to be too mean, but my problem is that the people I tend to find hilarious don't usually have senses of humor. So interacting with them is a little bit of an awkward engagement, because I can't really make them laugh, on top of which I've been doing an impression of them.
I always loved comedy but I didn't start formally until I was in college.
What we need to change is our minds, that's the part that's doing us dirt and dragging us under. How can we change our minds.
A 1990 Gallup poll found that 77 percent of Americans polled said abortion was the taking of human life. I agree, and believe that taking the life on an innocent child is unjust.
The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, not only for as long as you can write anything that anyone will buy, but as long as anyone will buy any portion of any right to anything that you ever did write. He just takes ten per cent of your life.
However, community is first of all a quality of the heart. It grows from the spiritual knowledge that we are alive not for ourselves but for one another. Community is the fruit of our capacity to make the interests of others more important than our own. The question, therefore, is not 'How can we make community?' but, 'How can we develop and nurture giving hearts?'