For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt--something is gained but something is lost.
I love standup and I haven't given it up.
I would get my student loans, get money, register and never really go. It was a system I thought would somehow pan out.
The best comedy, I feel, comes in a drama because it balances each other out.
When you wake up one day and say, "You know what? I don't think I ever need to sleep or have sex again. " Congratulations, you're ready (to have children).
Whenever I get down about life going by too quickly, what helps me is a little mantra that I repeat to myself: at least I'm not a fruit fly.
You might think that's an exaggeration but believe me, if you leave twin two-year-olds alone in your living room, at some point a cow will be airborne.
No one can truly know Christ unless they follow him in life.
Eventually, I sickened of people, myself included, who didn't think enough of themselves to make something of themselves- people who did only what they had to and never what they could have done. I learned from them the infected loneliness that comes at the end of every misspent day. I knew I could do better.
Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.
Vision evokes emotion. There is no such thing as an emotionless vision.