“ The revelation that personal truth can be the foundation of comedy, that outrageousness can be cleansing and healthy… Joan Rivers
“ I am driven. Being driven is my energy source. It is my fun.…I believe that where there is action, there is movement, and those ripples will eventually produce something positive. Joan Rivers
“ When you begin to losing your audience, do not get loud; get quiet, make them find you and come back to you. Joan Rivers
“ Laughing made me feel safe. I was not going to be enveloped by the seediness that coated this world like dust. Joan Rivers
“ It gathers emotionally inside you, in a strange way a by-product of struggle, of a willingness to do anything, try anything, expose yourself to anything — staying in motion because sooner or later tho… Joan Rivers
“ Somehow, some way, every person in the arts has to find an accommodation with disappointment and embarrassment. They are the pollen in the air we breathe. Joan Rivers
“ I said, "Is there!" I told him there is a Mafia school where they teach them math — if Johnny has ten fingers and they cut off two, how many does he have left? Joan Rivers
“ People say it is not the key to happiness, but I have always figured if you have enough money you can have a key made. Joan Rivers
“ As a teenager in Brooklyn Quentin had often imagined himself engaged in martial heroics, but after this he knew, as a cold immutable fact, that he would do anything necessary, sacrificing whatever or… Lev Grossman
“ He'd once explained that when he was a boy his very proper parents had forbidden him and his brothers to curse in the house so 'feather buckets' was the young boys coded way of saying 'f*ck it Kate Carlisle
“ I had to say it gave me a warm feeling to picture Meredith Winslow spending twenty years or so in an ill fitting orange jumpsuit, cozying up to a great big girl named Beulah Kate Carlisle
“ Men were good for one thing only. Killing spiders. Other than that, I was on my own. It was sad though. Where was the chivalry of yesteryear? Kate Carlisle
