Quotes of: Carlin Keyword

Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.

Henny Youngman

He doesn't have anything like wisdom of age or hindsight. He's a biased historian of self, an emotional revisionist. We all are, for the most part.

Attempting Normal

I was an abusive, selfish, needy, angry asshole. Now I'm just kind of selfish, a little less angry, occasionally needy, with flights of asshole. I've grown.

Attempting Normal

Like a good-looking John Merrick, mine was a face that looked really shit.

I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan

The Word is alive. We have always known it. But it needs to be uttered, aloud or in the mind of a reader. Without a consciousness to tickle them into life, those books were dead.

Strange Bodies

This is the real power of joy, to make us certain that, beneath all grief, the most fundamental of realities is joy itself.

Sister Wendy's Meditations on Joy

Although we cannot command it, we choose joy, making a deliberate commitment to happiness (essentially another word for peace).

Sister Wendy's Meditations on Joy

Divorce becomes a holy moment when you choose to use it as a catalyst for having an extraordinary life.

Spiritual Divorce: Divorce as a Catalyst for an Extraordinary Life

I don't think I remember my first memory

My Drunk Kitchen: A Guide to Eating, Drinking, and Going with Your Gut

Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.

One Writer's Beginnings

Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior.

Life of Christ

Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.

Life of Christ

The family tree of earthly ancestors was really not important; what was important was the family tree of the children of God He planted on Calvary.

Life of Christ

Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.

Life of Christ

The rich can afford to be progressive. Poor people have reason to be afraid of the future.

Lake Wobegon Days

Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts.

Life Is Worth Living

Some love comes like the wind off the sea, while others grow slowly from the seeds of friendship and kindness." - Carline

Magician: Apprentice

Since evil is nothing positive, there can be no principle of evil. It has no meaning expect in reference to something good.

Philosophy of Science

Evelyn was an insomniac so when they say she died in her sleep, you have to question that.

Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon

The notion of freedom proclaimed by the modern world is anti-discipline. But true freedom cannot be separated from discipline.

Rediscover Catholicism

My mother insured that a life of petty facts and dutiful farming was kept at bay by her passionate intensity, which nurtured the essential dreaminess of his nature

The Reconstructionist