My act is sort of improvisational. I have a skeleton in my head, but no fat or skin on it. Paula Poundstone Read Quote
I was diagnosed a number of years ago with obsessive-compulsive disorder – which everyone has, to some degree – and I have this really annoying trait where in conversation, I always steer it back to something that happened to me. Paula Poundstone Read Quote
I talk to a lot of librarians, and there’s always a steady drumbeat of how libraries are places of community. But a lot of them have also recently – and just in the nick of time – refurbished, because during this economic downturn, people have a tendency to borrow instead of buy. Paula Poundstone Read Quote
I have jokes I’ve told before and will tell again, but my favorite part of the night is talking to the crowd. Paula Poundstone Read Quote
There are really only so many foods and so many ways you can prepare them. Paula Poundstone Read Quote
I also like a great Caesar salad with anchovies, although I don’t know why some places say ‘with anchovies.’ If you’re making a proper Caesar salad, it’s going to have anchovies. Paula Poundstone Read Quote
How do you come back? It’s one step at a time. I’m optimistic because I don’t know what else to be. Paula Poundstone Read Quote
I was born in Alabama, but I only lived there for a month before I’d done everything there was to do. Paula Poundstone Read Quote
I used to watch ‘The Waltons’ and sob because my family was nothing like that. We had a cruel sense of humor in my family. Paula Poundstone Read Quote
I was the youngest in my family. When the other kids went to school, my mother would make them breakfast and then she would go back to bed for an hour, so I was sort of babysat by television. Paula Poundstone Read Quote
