You don't want to get that sort of sound in your writing that boing that gives you away.

You don't want to get that sort of sound in your writing that boing that gives you away.

This is the big reason most humorists fail. Drunks don't read books.

I think there's a lot of power in listening to one person talking to you. And this should never be underestimated.One person sitting and talking to you and, you're pulled in, in ways that technology and art and all cannot.

We writers don't really think about whether what we write is good or not. It's too much to worry about. We just put the words down, trying to get them right, operating by some inner sense of pitch and proportion, and from time to time, we stick the stuff in an envelope and ship it to an editor.

She gave him such a look... Man oh man, if looks could kill. That one might have totalled a city block.

The reason to retire is to try to avoid embarrassment; you ought to do it before people are dropping big hints. You want to be the first to come up with the idea. You don't want to wait until you trip and fall off the stage.