I was raised with "Laurel and Hardy" and "I Love Lucy" and Jerry Lewis, and I just loved it. And I had a friend in high school and we would just laugh all day and put on skits. You know, it's the Andy Kaufman thing or the Marty Short thing where you're performing in your bedroom for yourself.

Unlike Ray Porter, his love is fearless and without reservation.

Were they beautiful? We were all beautiful. We were in our twenties.

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

If he thinks he would harm Mirabelle, he would back away. But he does not yet understand when and how people are hurt. He doesn't understand the subtleties of slights and pains, that it is not the big events that hurt the most but rather the smallest questionable shift in tone at the end of a spoken word that can plow most deeply into the heart.

Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration.

Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.