"Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff."

-- Alison Bechdel

#Roots Quotes #Delight Quotes #Stuff Quotes

“You say you're a comedian, you always have to be on guard.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The worst advice? 'Don't listen to the critics.' I think that you really ought to listen to the critics, because sometimes they're telling you something is broken that you can fix.”
“English rain feels obligatory, like paperwork. It dampens already damn days and slicks the stones.”
“One day I received a call from my agent, he asked me to put myself on tape for a film that was being cast in LA. I was thrilled at the possibility alone.”
“Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.”

Source : Epigrams, X, 23, c. 80 - 104 AD.
“song of elli (old age) "What is plucked will grow again, What is slain lives on, What is stolen will remain What is gone is gone... What is sea-born dies on land, Soft is trod upon. What is given burns the hand - What is gone is gone... Here is there, and high is low; All may be undone. What is true, no two men know - What is gone is gone... Who has choices need not choose. We must, who have none. We can love but what we lose - What is gone is gone.”
“I think we need to recover the depth, the subtlety, the generosity of imagination, the respect for wisdom that so marked Islam in its great ages.”
“One night I was on my [Navy] ship... on my first cruise crossing the North Atlantic in a horrible storm, chained to the rails so I wouldn't fall overboard. In this lightning and thunder and hail, in this misery, I shouted at the heavens with my little squeaky voice and said, Someday I'm going to be a photographer! It was as big an epiphany as any man ever had.”

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