It's a lot of hard work to do a weekly TV show. It's certainly not fun.
When you're a comedian, you're just by yourself.
If you're ever if you're ever thinking, “Oh, but I'm a waste of space and I'm a burden,” remember: that also describes the Grand Canyon. Why don't you have friends and family take pictures of you from a safe distance? Revel in your majestic profile?
My therapist says I'm afraid of success. I guess I could understand that, because after all, fulfilling my potential would REALLY cut into my sitting-around time
Get out of your house and go see some live performance, for God's sake. There are people creating things just outside your window.
I can't stand makeup commercials. 'Do you need a lipstick that keeps your lips kissable?' No, I need a lipstick that gets me equal pay for equal work. How about an eye shadow that makes me stop thinking I'm too fat?
If you stay alive for no other reason do it for spite
The Saluki is a marvel of elegance.
I actually went to university.
The quiet mind is richer than a crown. . . . Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss beggars enjoy when princes oft do miss.
But you can’t get to any of these truths by sitting in a field smiling beatifically, avoiding your anger and damage and grief. Your anger and damage and grief are the way to the truth. We don’t have much truth to express unless we have gone into those rooms and closets and woods and abysses that we were told not go in to. When we have gone in and looked around for a long while, just breathing and finally taking it in – then we will be able to speak in our own voice and to stay in the present moment. And that moment is home.