“People don’t talk to each other about real things because they’re afraid of how they’ll be judged. Or they think other people don’t have the capacity to carry the burden of what they have to say. They see the compulsion to put that burden out in the world as a show of weakness. But all that stuff is what makes us human; more than that, it’s what makes being human interesting and funny. How we got away from that, I don’t know. But fuck that. We’re built to deal with shit.” – pg. xvii
“The only plan I’ve ever had in life was to be a comedian. I’ve never been sure why, but as I get older I’m starting to think it was because I needed to finish the construction of myself.” – pg. 17
“That’s the big challenge of life – to chisel disappointment into wisdom so people respect you and you don’t annoy your friends with your whining.” – pg. 75
“If you survive your mistake, you must learn from it. Accept that you’re fragile, vulnerable, and sometimes stupid.” – pg. 141
“As you get older and wiser everything becomes a bit more loaded with meaning and/or completely drained of it. It sort of happens simultaneously.” – pg. 170
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