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After the first few readings in comedy venues I did begin to write for laughs. There's something so gratifying about stimulating laughter.
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With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
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But a child's joy is doubled for the mother, and the sound of her son's laughter began to her heart, a feat she had never believed possible
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When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.
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If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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My parents are definitely reformed hippies.
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I used to travel in tennis shoes; I am just not allowed to anymore. I'm an old hippie from San Francisco.
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Always was Morocco. And recently the country's leadership seems to have embraced it in all its ill-reputed glory. The days of predatory poets in search of literary inspiration and young flesh are probably over for good. Hippies can just as easily get their bong riffs in Portland or Peoria. But the good stuff, the real good stuff, the sounds and smells and the look of Tangier -- what you see and hear when you lean out the window and take it all in -- that's here to stay.
