"Reading Alan Zweibel makes me laugh out loud. And yet it is not a particularly funny name."

-- Eric Idle

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“People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.”
“Seagulls . . . slim yachts of the element.”
“I think the comic that's gotten me the most feedback is actually the one about the stoplights. Noticing when the stoplights are in sync, or calculating the length of your strides between floor tiles - normal people notice that kind of stuff, but a certain kind of person will do some calculations.”

Source : "Real Geek Heart Beats in Xkcd's Stick Figures" by Adrienne So, www.wired.com. November 13, 2007.
“Sometimes in your life you will go on a journey. It will be the longest journey you have ever taken. It is the journey to find yourself.”
“Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.”
“To go straight to the deepest depth, I went for Hegel; what unclear thoughtless flow of words I was to find there! My unlucky star led me from Hegel to Schopenhauer . . . Even in Kant there were many things that I could grasp so little that given his general acuity of mind I almost suspected that he was pulling the reader's leg or was even an imposter.”
“Go on day by day fulfilling the task of the day, and leaving the results with God.”
“That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves, I could try and find it in me.”

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