One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

  • -- V. S. Naipaul V.S.奈保尔

一个人总是在最歇斯底里的时候写喜剧。

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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

我发现,我更容易认同那些濒临歇斯底里、害怕生活、渴望与他人接触的角色。但这些看似脆弱的人其实是坚强的人。

I didn't go to high school. I think that after you learn to read and write and do your numbers and flush the toilet behind yourself, you don't need no more schoolin'. You need to get out in the water and swim.

我没有上过高中。我想,当你学会了读、写、算、自己冲马桶之后,你就不需要再上学了。你需要到水里去游泳。

Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.

有时候当我说话的时候,我的语言跟不上我的思想。我想知道为什么我们思考的速度比说话的速度快。也许这样我们可以三思而后行。

The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and fears.

作为一名作家,最好的事情是它能让你的读者理解你最深的感受和恐惧。

You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can't teach someone who writes columns to care.

你可以教一个关心写专栏的人,但你不能教一个写专栏的人去关心。

The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

对一个真正的喜剧演员的考验是你是否在他开口之前就嘲笑他。

I would recommend that anyone who wants to do comedy on TV to do radio first.

我建议想在电视上做喜剧的人先做广播。

What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.

我喜欢好的作家不是他说什么,而是他低声说什么。

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

你身体里的智慧比你内心深处的哲理还要丰富。

Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.

奇怪的是,有些歌你真的不想写。

I have cultivated my hysteria with joy and terror.

我因喜悦和恐惧而变得歇斯底里。

Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.

喜剧可能是一门大生意,但它并不漂亮。