Steven Wright

United States
Born on 6 Dec 1955
Comedian

I turned my air conditioner the other way around, and it got cold out.
The weatherman said, 'I don't understand it. It was supposed to be 80 degrees out today.'
I said, 'Oops . . . '.


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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays