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"A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book."
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"Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better."
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"Also, in a funny way, if you have been happily married there are no unresolved areas, nothing to prove to yourself after the other dies."
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"I think being funny is not anyone's first choice."
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"Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it."
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"Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion."
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"Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed."
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"It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget."
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"It's fun, but the fun is where it always was. I mean, it's still fun to strap on my Les Paul in the basement and turn up the Marshall amp. I'm still 15. I still enjoy that as much as I ever did."
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"I got hit twice in the face, and that was not fun."
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"I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've got other stories to tell."
Health
"I suppose all writers worry about the well running dry."
Running
"Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that."
Movies
"Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me."
Hope
"I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally to me."
Comedy
"My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination."
Imagination
"I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid."
Nature
"If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke."
Fun
"I read pretty voraciously. If it's good, I don't care what it is."
Care
"I want that which is hilarious and that which is heartbreaking to occupy the same territory in the book because I think they very often occupy the same territory in life, much as we try to separate them."
Life
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