I Think Gay People Are Like Blondes:

Compromise Is The Work Of Mature People.

I Believe That We Often Disguise Pain Through Ritual And It May Be The Only Solace We Have.

Tragedy Massages The Human Ego Even As Comedy Deflates It. ... Tragedy Pits Us Against Large Foes And The Trip Wire Is Our Own Character. ... In Comedy We Fall Afoul Of One Another. Comedy Depends On Social Life, On Our Behavior In Groups. In Tragedy You Can Observe One Human Against The Gods. In Comedy It's One Human Versus Other Humans And Often One Man (or Woman If I'm Writing It) Against Her Own Worst Impulses.

Sport Strips Away Personality, Letting The White Bone Of Character Shine Through. Sport Gives Players An Opportunity To Know And Test Themselves. The Great Difference Between Sport And Art Is That Sport, Like A Sonnet, Forces Beauty Within Its Own System. Art, On The Other Hand, Cyclically Destroys Boundaries And Breaks Free.

Never Measure Literature By Accounting Statistics. A Quarter Of Working Authors Earn Less Than $1,000.