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
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
The old problems – love, money, security, status, health, etc. – are still here to plague us or please us. – Shelley Berman
I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic. – Shelley Berman
I get in trouble when I say things like, Im attracted to violence. I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. Im just trying to understand where it came from. – Caleb Carr