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You know how it is with writing. You just write what you want to write. There's no way to predict what is good or bad. You just do what you think is funny, and either it works or you're finished. It's impossible to predict anything.

There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.

If ebooks mean that readers' freedom must either increase or decrease, we must demand the increase.

I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don't laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that's not real laughter.

Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

I'm never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to take both of them.

Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.

As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.

And you can't hide in a comedy scene either. You have to give in to the scene and commit.

After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.

You're either too fat or too thin. You just can't win.

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.

Normal is such a hard word to use, because everyone's idea of normal is different. Real is what the word is. I think you either live a real life or you live a weird celebrity pseudolife. I think I lead a really real life.

People who do not see the terrible things therefore do not see the beautiful things, either.

Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.

A person that much interested in science is going to neglect his social life somewhat, but not completely, because that isn't healthy either. So one has to work it out according to one's own inclinations, how one wants to proportion these things.

When you practice reporting for as long as I have, you keep yourself at a distance from True Believers. Either conservatives or liberals or Democrats or Republicans.

I don't even think when I'm walking down the runway. I don't really breathe either.

The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked.

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

It's hard to know whether certain characters come to life or not, they either come to have their own life or they don't. I've written many things in which the characters just remain inert.

Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

There are people much less fortunate than us, and I don't mean people hungry sleeping in the streets either.

No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either.

You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.