The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.

Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.

Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on 'canned' laughter, grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years.

Life is always walking up to us and saying, "Come on in, the living's fine," and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard.

Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break down.

Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother.