Doing comedy alone onstage is the ego's last stand.
But Carroll's were more convoluted, and they struck me as funny in a new way:1) Babies are illogical.2) Nobody is despised who can manage a crocodile.3) Illogical persons are despised.Therefore, babie...
My father muttered something to me, and I responded with a mumbled What. He shouted, You heard me, thundered up from his chair, pulled his belt out of its loops, and inflicted a beating that seemed ne...
. . Now you see . . . they' re not fit for humans . . . Put them on me.
Thinking too much also creates the illusion of causal connections between unrelated events.
There’s a rumor that a recent Oscar host is going to play Catwoman. Waiting by my phone for the call.
So she viewed time spent in the land of the normal as an investigation into the world of marriage-worthy men, even if she was unsure about her own interest in marriage. There must be one solid citizen...
Next phase of weight loss program: Brazilian Butt Workout. I’ve looked at a hundred photos. So far, not working.
Mirabelle's ambition is about one-tenth of 1 percent of what would be called normal. ... She is not aware that some people fight like alley cats for desirable situations. She presents a résumé, fills...
Mirabelle is not affected by a man’s failures to approach her, as her own self-depreciating attitude never allows the idea that he would in the first place.
Mirabelle attracts men of a different kind. They are shyer and more reticent. They look at her a long time before approaching, and when they do find something about her that they want, it is something...
MY FATHER , GLENN VERNON MARTIN , died in 1997 at age eighty-three, and afterward his friends told me how much they had loved him. They told me how enjoyable he was, how outgoing he was, how funny and...
Lacy was just as happy alone as with company. When she was alone, she was potential; with others she was realized.
In psychoanalysis, you try to retain a discovery; in art, once the thing is made, you let it go.
He never complicates a desire by overthinking it, unlike Mirabelle, who spins a cocoon around an idea until it is immobile.
Pinching my swollen fingers in between. Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naïveté, that fabulous quality that keeps you from knowing just...
A real scholar with a bright pen,
I understood that as much as I had resisted the outside, as much as I had constricted my life, as much as I had closed and narrowed the channels into me, there were still many takers for the quiet hea...
You’re nuts, but you’re welcome here.
No, no, I could never be a woman. I'd just stay at home and play with my breasts all day.