When I Got [my] Library Card, That

You're Nothing In America If You Don't Have Debt.

I'm Beginning To Feel That The Real Endangered Species On Planet Earth Are Not The Whales And The Elephants But Those Of Us Who Can Laugh At The World And Ourselves. ... I Fear The Dry Turn Of The American Mind, This Focus On The Literal, As Much As I Fear Our Capacity For Self-destruction. We've Become Hagridden By Facts, Obsessed With Product Instead Of Process. Where's The Energetic Wit, The Looney Outlook, The Frivolity, The Lightness Of Comforting Laughter? It Has Become Fashionable To Know And Unfashionable To Feel, And You Can't Really Laugh If You Can't Feel.

I Am A Comic Writer, Which Means I Get To Slay The Dragons, And Shoot The Bull.

It's Still Easier To Take A Blow From Outside Than It Is To Be Disgusted With Myself For Not Taking A Stand. I Don't Know How People Can Live And Not Fight Back But Apparently Millions Do. They Must Hate Themselves.

As For Loving Woman, I Have Never Understood Why Some People Had A Fit. I Still Don't. It Seems Fine To Me. If An Individual Is Productive Responsible, And Energetic, Why Should Her Choice In A Partner Make Such A Fuss? The Government Is Only Too Happy To Take My Tax Money And Yet They Uphold Legislation That Keeps Me A Second Class Citizen. Surely, There Should Be A Tax Break For Those Of Us Who Are Robbed Of Full And Equal Participation And Protection In The Life Of Our Nation.