Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.
The world may be mean, but people don’t have to be, not if they refuse.
Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.