"Most of my work is comedy; it's meant to inspire empathy in people and help them find joy."

-- Zach Anner

#People Quotes #Empathy Quotes #Joy Quotes

“I like books that are exciting and that make you think about things, as well. I like things that have a twist - like 'Atonement,' which I haven't read obviously, as I'm a bit young.”
“I'm straightforward with my kids, I take my kids out and I bring my daughter to dance lessons. I'm teaching my son how to ski, and my wife supports them and my wife has some issues. What, you just dismiss them? You just walk away? I don't walk away from anyone, Bill, in life! I'm sitting here and support people that are down and out! All these rich and elitist people, I'm sick of them! I'm sick of them! No, they're perfect. They don't do nothing! Get outta here! 'They don't do nothing!' They're the biggest crooks around!”

Source : "Reporter's notebook: In the heart of Ford Nation with Toronto's embattled mayor". Interview with Bill Weir, www.cnn.com. November 18, 2013.
“I lay naked in furs a lot. I think I'm naked more than I talk.”
“I'm not so much against the war as I am for a Vietnamese victory. I'm not so much for peace as for a U.S. defeat.”

Source : William Ayers (2009). “Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Antiwar Activist”, p.114, Beacon Press
“Life isn't about constantly trying to scale peak after peak, it's about living at a high plateau & thriving”
“Perhaps there is no other way of reaching some understanding of being than through art? Writers themselves don't analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope. To say this is not to mystify the process of writing but to make an image out of the intense inner concentration the writer must have to cross the chasms of the aleatory and make them the word's own, as an explorer plants a flag.”
“Even a fool learns something once it hits him.”
“People submit too easily to change from others. And yet, for some reason, whenever they consider changing themselves, the focus is always on what they are giving up, never what they are about to gain.”

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