For about twenty years, if I managed to write ten or twelve poems in a year; I considered that a pretty successful year, but I wrote 'The... →
Franz Wright
Honestly, I just go to restaurants to eat so I won't die. If there was a pill I could take in January and then I wouldn't have to eat again... →
Steven Wright
I never even thought of myself as deadpan until someone wrote an article about me about a year after I was doing comedy. There was a paper called the... →
Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.
I've been studying on my own. I'm not really trained. I went to school for about a year and a half. I never really studied music, but, I... →
Andrew Wyatt
I studied classical music for a year. Then, I studied jazz for a year at the New School, and then I got kicked out. You had to go to your class, so I... →
President Obama said it best during his state of the Union Address this year when he declared: 'I will go anywhere in the world to open new... →
Ron Wyden
Most coaches would consider leading a team to an Olympic gold medal a capper for a pretty good year. The same goes for winning an NCAA national... →
Don Yaeger
Jamie Moyer was in his third year as a major league pitcher and was, by his own admission, still wide-eyed,watching everything going on around him... →
Magic Johnson was in the seventh year of his Hall of Fame career when thoughts of his basketball afterlife led him to the office of uber-executive... →