I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to say with icy superiority).
I've got soggy thighs. It must be dinner time.
I believe in the separation of church and planet.
Pattycake, pattycake, baker's man; good morning, madam, I'm a psychiatrist
I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. The writers decide what the material is.
Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead.
Reading Alan Zweibel makes me laugh out loud. And yet it is not a particularly funny name.
Whatever the polls do between now and then, winning is what matters.
I think some of that hopelessness of my generation got passed on to later generations - the sense of uselessness.
In the '70s and '80s there was an attempt in K-12 to teach science through art or art through science. The challenge today is how do you build the ethos of art and design into the academy of science.
And how she looked at me like I could save her from everything bad in he world. This was my secret: she was the one who saved me