As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy. – Shelley Berman
I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic. – Shelley Berman
The old problems – love, money, security, status, health, etc. – are still here to plague us or please us. – Shelley Berman
While youre improvising, you may come up with something which will break him up. As soon as that smile comes out, you know that, hey, were having fun. – Shelley Berman
I tell again the oldest and the newest story of all the world, — the story of Invincible Love! This tale divine — ancient as the beginning of things, fresh and young as the passing hour — has forms and names various as humanity. – Amelia E. Huddleston Barr, A Rose of a Hundred Leaves: A Love Story, 1891
I remember being in Atlantic City once when I was 18 or 19, and a sea of people were screaming and pulling their hair because I was there. It was weird. Nobody deserves adulation like that. I tried to explain it to my kids once. I said, Mommy used to be kind of cool, kind of like a Britney Spears. – Genie Francis