You Can't Be Truly Rude Until You

The Real Reason Milton Went Blind Was To Avoid Reading Unsolicited Manuscripts.

No Animal On The Face Of The Earth Could Conceive Of Taxation. You And I Work Roughly Six Months A Year To Pay Our Local, State And Federal Taxes. If Nothing Else, This Should Convince You That Animals Are Smarter Than People.

Tragedy Massages The Human Ego Even As Comedy Deflates It. ... Tragedy Pits Us Against Large Foes And The Trip Wire Is Our Own Character. ... In Comedy We Fall Afoul Of One Another. Comedy Depends On Social Life, On Our Behavior In Groups. In Tragedy You Can Observe One Human Against The Gods. In Comedy It's One Human Versus Other Humans And Often One Man (or Woman If I'm Writing It) Against Her Own Worst Impulses.

I Believe Our Concept Of Romantic Love Is Irrational, Impossible To Fulfill And The Cause Of Many Broken Homes. No Human Being Can Maintain That Rarefied Atmosphere Of 'true Love'.

There Are More Differences Between Poor People Than Between Middle-class People.