No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader.
You haven't yet seen me be rude. When I am it's unmistakable. - Michelle Maxwell.
Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?
It's not the beginning or the destination that counts. It's the ride in between.
But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.
Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They can change yours.
Today might not be so good. But tomorrow, you got another chance to get it right.
I gave him a smile. I was aiming for sweet, but he turned a shade paler and scooted a bit farther from me. Note to self: work more on sweet and less on psycho-killer.
Among so many conflicting ideas and so many different perspectives, the honest man is confused and distressed and the skeptic becomes wicked. . . Since one must take sides, one might as well choose the side that is victorious, the side which devastates, loots, and burns. Considering the alternative, it is better to eat than to be eaten.
You like me, Josie Moraine. You just don't know it yet.
laughter, that distinctively human emotion, laughter which springs from trust in the other, from willingness to put oneself momentarily in the other's place, even at one's own expense, is the special emotional basis of democratic procedures, just as pride is the emotion of an aristocracy, shame of a crowd that rules, and fear of a police state.