If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.

Stories worked much the same way . . . A false note at the beginning was much more costly than one nearer the end because early errors were part of the foundation.

I just have this feeling that if it weren't for the Gloversville Free Library that I probably would not be a writer.

If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.

Knowing and knowing what to do about it were two different things.

Sleep is over-rated. Have you ever noticed how it's always recommended to people anybody with half a brain can see need to wake up?

He looks like he could be taken in a fight. Not by me, but by somebody. Not anyone in Humanities, probably.