It's no fun being a specimen.
From Dick Cavett
Do freshman philosophy classes nowadays debate updated versions of the age-old questions? Like, how could a merciful God allow AIDS, childhood cancers, tsunamis and Dick Cheney?
Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
I don't see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty - and evaporating quickly.
Unpleasant reading on the subject of anger tells us that there's not really anything wrong with it. In limited amounts. It can even be a good thing. A pressure valve.
I don't think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience's reaction is from another.
I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew's and Albert Einstein's.
Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that's too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.
The authority of depression is horrifying. I felt like my brain was busted and that I could never feel good again. I really thought that I was never gonna heal.
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