Anyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without even your asking, that deep inside they are very serious, neurotic, introspective people.
As I ramble through life, whatever be my goal, I will unfortunately always keep my eye upon the doughnut and not upon the whole.
Because of Mozart, it's all over after the age of seven.
Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and- here's the big curve- for your parents.
Being funny is a way of being liked and a way of dealing with sadness.
Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.
I really worked at becoming more assertive, and now none of my friends talk to me.
I'm perpetually curious as to what happened to all those supposed prodigies who were singled out while I and my coterie of far more interesting malcontents passed on.
If you embrace sloth, it's the last thing you ever have to do again.
No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.
Our lives are not totally random. We make commitments, we cause things to happen.
Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death.
The marriages come and go but your friendships stay, which is the opposite of what it used to be, so that there will be people in our lives for 30 years and often it is not your husband, it's your women friends, male friends with whom you come of age.
The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain.
The signature of a truly enviable woman is the tenacity and continuity of her women friends.
The thing I longed for as a teenager is now an object of neglect and scorn. I've grown to hate my telephone.
Work is a way of shutting out ambiguous sentiment.
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