Lenny Bruce Trying Quotations

My only challenge was to tell my truth, man... figure out what I had to say. These days, it's not enough to boost that roomful of strangers. The young comic spends all their time trying to sound different from the million other jokesters grabbing for the mic.

The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be,' there is only what is.