Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

The misconception is that standup comics are always on. I don't know any really funny comics that are annoying and constantly trying to be funny all the time.

I love readings and my readers but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful but I'm annoying and a phony.

I like long walks especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

When a friend is in trouble don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

There are few things in politics more annoying than the Right's utter conviction that it owns the patent on the word 'freedom' that when its leaders stand up for the rights of banks to be unregulated or capital gains to be untaxed that it is actually and obviously standing up for human liberty the noblest cause of them all.

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

The pride of the hipster food movement is sort of annoying but it fascinates me.

I fear dying in the middle of a book. It would be so annoying to write 80 000 words and not get to the end. I'm phobic about it. So when I'm writing a book I leave messages all over the house for people to know how the story ends and then someone can finish it for me.