We all know funny people who cant get it down on the page – even funny writers who cant get it down on the page. – Calvin Trillin
With humor, its so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy. – Calvin Trillin
If its inappropriate to write about, if theres nothing funny about it, then its not funny. – Calvin Trillin
I never eat in a restaurant thats over a hundred feet off the ground and wont stand still. – Calvin Trillin
It used to be that you had to make female TV characters perfect so no one would be offended by your portrayal of women. Even when I started out on The Office eight years ago, we could write our male characters funny and flawed, but not the women. And now, thankfully, its completely different. – Mindy Kaling
Nevertheless, a maxim does not necessarily become a proverb. Many grubs never grow to butterflies; and a maxim is only a proverb in its caterpillar stage—a candidate for a wider sphere and longer flight than most are destined to attain. – “Proverbs Secular and Sacred,” The North British Review, February 1858