“It's no secret that in my books I'm trying to make the comic and the serious rub up against each other just as closely and uncomfortably as I can.” TryingI CanBookSecretSeriousComic Author:Richard Russo
“As I drift back into sleep, I can't help thinking that it's a wonderful thing to be right about the world. To weigh the evidence, always incomplete, and correctly intuit the whole, to see the world in a grain of sand, to recognize its beauty, its simplicity, its truth. It's as close as we get to God in this life, and reside in the glow of such brief flashes of understanding, fully awake, sometimes for two or three seconds, at peace with our existence. And then back to sleep we go.” ThinkingWorldI CanTwoSometimesWholeHelpingThreeUnderstandingSleepExistenceWonderfulEvidenceSimplicityThis LifeAwakeSandSecondsGrainFlashWonderful ThingsIncompleteGrains Of Sand Author:Richard Russo
“I'm not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though it's been my experience that most people don't want to be entertained. They want to be comforted.” PeopleMenWantI CanEasyEntertaining Book:Straight Man Source: Straight Man
