The honey doesn't taste so good once it is being eaten; the goal doesn't mean so much once it is reached; the reward is no so rewarding once it has been given. If we add up all the rewards in our lives, we won't have very much. But if we add up the s...
Oh, Al, shut up! Stop criticizing me! First I'm criticized for being a prude and sounding like a social worker or something, then I'm criticized for looking like a cheap broad. How am I supposed to live? Under the water or something, coming up only t...
Now, I don't believe that a god exists. I think that gods are creation of men, by men, and for men. What has happened over the many centuries now, the better part of two thousand in fact, is that God has been slowly and steadily accruing power. His c...
A child isn’t born bitter. I point no fingers as to who tainted the clean, pure pool of my childhood. Let’s just say that when I realized that I didn’t want to grow up, the damage was already done. Knowing that being grown up was no swell place...
Thumper: Maybe there's a reason you repressed the day some pervert had you in your tighty-whities. [glances at Evan's journals] Thumper: I'd think twice about what you're doing. You could wake up a lot more fucked up than you are now. Evan: More fuck...
I once believed in faith - that if I patiently waited, something good will happen. But at the end of the chapter, I found myself devastated. Years have gone by and I'm back at chapter one again. I've tried several times already and ended up in the sa...
At the end of the day, we all crawl, exhausted, to some doorstep. Some crawl to the doorstep of their new home, the one they have sought for miles without giving up their goal, exhausted by their determination. And others crawl to the doorstep of the...
Ink, if not used, will dry up.
A second marriage is like a warmed-up meal.
What flares up fast, extinguishes soon.
Managing bottom-up change is its own art.
I had plenty of vices growing up.
Loosen up, and everybody around you will loosen up.
Growing up, I was a nerd. With actual taped eyeglasses.
Stand-up is successful if they laugh. It's unsuccessful if they don't laugh.
I was signed at 18 and had to grow up quickly.
I didn't watch a lot of TV growing up.
Growing up, I lived a moderate lifestyle with my family.
I always sang harmony with my family growing up.
Being a kid and growing up is such a cool part of life.
I have a lot of hang-ups in life with men. I'm not very trusting.
