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"The best way to waste your life is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate. Let Big Brother do the singing and dancing for yo..."

"The funny part of being funny is when you start seeing your fans writing funny words and attributing them to you."

"The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people."

"Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name of the person to whom the sentences are attributed."

"Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible."

"Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person-and write to that one."

"But my way of writing is rather to think aloud, and follow my own humours, than much to consider who is listening to me; and, if I stop to consider what is proper to be said to this or that person, I ..."

"You can't stumble into an adventure. An artist must dance, not walk, in order to inspire their audience. This patient audience who has witnessed all that you've ever performed. So don't be shy. Just d..."

"Most of the people in the audience were white and old. They had the gaunt look of people who have seen all the important movies and can now only look forward to reruns."

"LIZZ WINSTEAD Instead of Jon playing a character—the news anchor, one of the derelicts in a derelict world of media—Jon made a creative decision to take the show in the direction of the correspondents..."