Shelley Berman Quotes

“While you're improvising, you may come up with something which will break him up. As soon as that smile comes out, you know that, hey, we're having fun.”

“The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us.”

“Steroids can seem necessary to compete at the highest levels, and the quick rewards can outweigh the long term consequences to the user's health.”

“I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.”

“I believe the stars are the headlights of angels driving from heaven to save usto save us...Won't you look at the sky?They're driving from heaven into our eyes. And though final words are so hard to devise, I promise that I'll always remember your pretty eyes.”

“As a way of getting in touch with my originsevery night I set the alarm clockfor the time I was born so that waking upbecomes a historical reenactment and the first thing I do”

“People who keep their feelings to themselves tend not to know, after a while, what their feelings are.”

“Alone, I relished the bird songs, the drone of hushed conversation from neighboring tables, and the gentle lapping of waves sliding on the shore. I didn't feel the passage of time. There was no destination propelling me forward, no past and no future. Each glorious moment was replaced by the next.”

“It takes a society to raise a generation.”

“Just listen. Just be. Just witness. Just care. You don't have to fix it.”