me talk pretty one day

"Let me get this straight," one student said. "You're telling me that if I say something out loud, it's me saying it, but if I write the exact same thing on a piece of paper, it's somebody else, right?""Yes," I said. "And we're calling that fiction."The student pulled out his notebook, wrote something down, and handed me a sheet of paper that read, "That's the stupidest fucking thing I ever heard in my life." They were the smart group. dave sedaris