To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky.
Certain things are complete superstition and have no validity at all in the Bible. Yeah. They're just the antithesis of everything that is correct intellectually.
Trying to figure things out was my gig. Without the human condition, there's no struggle, no pain and that means no laughter.
I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be if I grow up.
Alright, let's admit it, we Jews killed Christ - but it was only for three days.
Never tell. Not if you love your wife. . . In fact, if your old lady walks in on you deny it. Yeah. Just flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around her neck 'Lay On Top Of Me Or I'll Die. ' " I didn't know what I was goin' to do.
What is truth today may be a damn lie next week.
I've always had a very extreme personality, which gets me into major trouble, I'm always all or nothing, and I don't know the world "balance. " I'm desperately trying to learn it because I think as you get older it becomes very important.
Demons may be either good or bad, like any other class of beings.
Only nothing is impossible.
There's not a lot of room for un-ironic emotion in contemporary culture. I think that irony is an important tool in dealing with the world as we find it. It's a tool of protection, but it can also be a tool of incision to get to some truth. But along the way maybe we've lost some of what I think of as the power of straightforward emotion and earnestness and seriousness.