When we finish a book, why do we hold it in both hands and gaze at it as if it were somehow alive?
Lynda BarryGoing on Letterman is like going off the high dive. It's exhilarating, but after a while it wasn't the kind of thrill I enjoyed.
Lynda BarryI live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control.
Lynda BarryThe thing I call โmy mindโ seems to be kind of like a landlord that doesnโt really know its tenants.
Lynda BarryWhat if she stepped on a needle and it went right into her foot and Roberta would not feel it and the needle would rise and rise and rise through the veins leading up to the heart and then the needle would STAB HER IN THE HEART and Roberta would DIE and it would be VERY PAINFUL this according to nurse mother a medical expert on Freaky Ways to Croak... The mother shouted that she knew several people who died from the Rising Stab of the Unfelt Needle or RSUN she has seen cases of it many times and not ONE PERSON HAS SURVIVED IT.
Lynda Barry