Eventually I was saying to myself, maybe it would be better, INSTEAD of trying to become an American comedian in France, to mix those two styles and those two genres. Because of course it's GOOD to be efficient and sharp, and to have a JOKE EVERY twenty seconds, but it can be a little cold and DRY.

Who was Jesus anyway? After twenty CENTURIES, there is not MUCH anyone can AGREE on. The four canonical gospels don't measure up to MODERN standards of biographical writing, and - outside of this material - there is precious little contemporary evidence, apart from a few glancing mentions of Jesus or the MOVEMENT centered on him.

The West begins where the AVERAGE annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. WATER is important to people who do not have it, and the same is TRUE of CONTROL.

For over twenty YEARS, Homeboy Industries has chosen to STAND with those on the MARGINS and those whose burdens are more than they can bear; it stands with the poor and the POWERLESS, with the easily-despised and the readily-left out.

When we started out we didn't EXPECT anything would COME from it, definitely not MONEY. We'd pay to go on pirate RADIO: twenty quid a MONTH just to go on and spit for an hour.

If you feel DEPRESSED, GO and buy twenty BOOKS about depression. LEARN about it; FIND out how it works.

I LASTED SEVEN YEARS as a JOURNALIST, and I've been doing COMEDY for twenty years.

Latin American Art is an operational TERM used to DESCRIBE art ACTUALLY MADE in the more than twenty COUNTRIES that make up Latin America and that encompass Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean.

The thing about living in NEW YORK as a WRITER is that you hit that age where it feels like EVERYONE has a BOOK all at the same time. It's like that one year where you're invited to twenty weddings.

You're GOING to have twenty years as HOST of the 'Today SHOW,' and eighteen of those years are going to be so unbelievably fantastic that you're going to think you're living in a fantasy world. And one or two of those years is going to be incredibly FRUSTRATING and CHALLENGING.