The projects I have done on television, they're sitcoms, situational comedies. The problem is, maybe because they go on every day, Monday through Friday, one-hour format, maybe that's why they're labeled as a telenovela. But technically speaking, they're sitcoms because they're situational comedies.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

She confided to Eltringham that she wanted to kill herself in order to stop the suppressive body thetans from taking over her mind.

Just as certain people are more susceptible to particular diseases, some temperaments —especially those that tend to be melancholy or contemplative — are more vulnerable to questions and doubts.

Oh, don't go on like that! cried the poor Queen, wringing her hands in despair. Consider what a great girl you are. Consider what a long way you've come today. Consider what o'clock it is. Consider anything, only don't cry! Alice could not help laughing at this, even in the midst of her tears. Can you keep from crying by considering things? she asked. That's that way it's done, the Queen said with great decision: nobody can do two things at once, you know.

In our well-policed society we recognize that an illness is serious from the fact that we don't dare speak of it directly.

America is such a paradoxical society, hypocritically paradoxical, that if you don't have some humor, you'll crack up.

Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity.

Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives.

A funny little literary article in the hand is worth at least three Critiques of Pure Reason in the bush.

Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew. While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew. Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze. Freezy trees made these trees' cheese freeze. That's what made these three free fleas sneeze.

The people I grew up around who I really liked were quick on the draw. It always just wowed me. And my mum would make weird funny comments. I can see in myself her self-deprecating, hippie humour. I can't take myself too seriously.