Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
Whenever you move, I think you lose your history.
Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.
Evil is such a simplistic way to describe any character, be it Iago or Caliban, or any character from history.
Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.
Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history.
Unfortunately, we don't seem to learn from history, do we? And you'd think we would.
The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
Most computers today have built in backup software.
I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.
A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.
On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child.
Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.
My dad was a Punjabi from Amritsar, and my mom is a Punjabi from Kashmir. My dad was a soldier in the Indian Army.
I was born to a Nigerian dad and a Kenyan mom, and coming to the States was really academic.
I'm not a religious person. My mom was of Jewish blood and my dad was Protestant.
I was probably a terrible husband, but I pride myself on being a good dad.
My mom grew up in Kansas, my dad in Indiana. They had boring childhoods.
Dad and mom would have preferred that I be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a great humanitarian.
My mom and my dad are ebullient people, and I think I carry that with me.
When my dad divorced my mom it was kind of like him leaving me also.
