Depression – it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven’t been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it’s truly different.
DICK CAVETTIt’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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The greatest benefit of depression is the fact that when I have talked about it, every so often someone comes up and says, you saved my dad’s life.
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Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
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I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
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Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
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The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his second sentence to me was about knees.
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I find most ‘sacred music’ pretty dismal.
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I have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn’t include someone the size of the Hindenburg.
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I’m not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy.
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William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.
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Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
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I eat at this German-Chinese restaurant and the food is delicious. The only problem is that an hour later you’re hungry for power.
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If I were running a campaign, I’d urge taking the mountain of money reportedly squandered on pizza, coffee and bagels and spending it more wisely – on a talented young comedy writer.
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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
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Why anyone, by dying, should thereby be declared beyond criticism, innocent of wrongdoing, suddenly filled with virtue and above reproach escapes me.
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