True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed was the only possible answer.
The best comedy, I feel, comes in a drama because it balances each other out.
I would get my student loans, get money, register and never really go. It was a system I thought would somehow pan 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.
I did 15 shows a week when I lived in New York. I did five shows on a Friday and seven shows on a Saturday. It was everything I did and it was my sole source of income.
Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America -- that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement. At any rate, that is how it seemed to young George Webber, who was never so assured of his purpose as when he was going somewhere on a train. And he never had the sense of home so much as when he felt that he was going there. It was only when he got there that his homelessness began.
Baptism is the Sacrament of Faith. Now, dead faith does not suffice for salvation. . . Therefore, the Sacrament of Baptism cannot give salvation to a man whose will. . . expels the form of faith.
I'm a natural piano player. So all the practicing I do at this point is in my head. If I don't play for a year, my chops aren't going to get any worse. I've spent my time playing scales, and I don't necessarily want to play any faster than I play. So everything I do at this point is more philosophical.
Trifling trouble find utterance; deeply felt pangs are silent.