"Kindness is the color in the cathedral window which woven into beautiful characters shuts out the hideous sights of a world which is all too practical."

“The essence of childhood, of course, is play.”

“I did a lot of theater when I was in high school and college. I also did stand-up in college, so it was always part of what I did.”

“To become proficient in any field you must practise. There is simply no achievement without practice and the more practice, provided it is done intelligently, the greater will the proficiency be and the sooner will it be attained.”

“Lift up your eyes discouraged one”

“I discovered John Fante when I was 17 years old - strangely, not through Charles Bukowski, but through William Saroyan, who was his drinking buddy.”

“There's only two classes of people: terrorists and non-terrorists. Terrorists come in every flavour: there are Buddhist terrorists right now killing Rohingya in Burma! Buddhists! They're not allowed to kill bugs.”

“Everyone knows there's only one thing less welcome on a stage than a mime, and that's a clown, because everyone knows that clowns eat people.”

Source : Laurie Notaro (2007). “There's a (Slight) Chance I Might Be Going to Hell: A Novel of Sewer Pipes, Pageant Queens, and Big Trouble”, p.275, Villard

“Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.”