J.L. Carr Quotes

Make peace with guilt. Guilt is a poisonous illusion. Many languages don't even have a word for guilt.

My favourite road sign is 'Falling Rocks'. What exactly am I supposed to do with that information? They may as well have a sign saying "Random accidents ahead", "Life's a lottery, Be lucky."

Up came the sun, and drank the dew.

Don't shrink to meet the expectations of others, grow to become the person you want to be.

Let me not fuss and fret at my incompetence but be still and know that Thou art God.

Put Smarties tubes on cats legs, make them walk like a robot.

Cancer has changed, and so have I. Life goes on, even becomes normal again. I refused to let cancer wreck my party. There are just too many cool things to do and plan and live for.

I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect.

I love those people who do story-telling and who ramble on, but I don't do that, I tell jokes - the sort of jokes that anyone really could tell in the pub.

I was not ready for abstraction. I clung to earth and her dear shapes, her density, her herbage, her juice. I wanted her volume, and I wanted to hear her throb.

Dinner is where the magic happens in the kitchen.

When we accept ourselves exactly as we are, in exactly this moment, we shift from living for tomorrow to appreciating today.

Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.

real art is religion, a search for the beauty of God deep in all things.

I have no problems with buying tampons. I am a fairly modern man. But apparently they're not a "proper" present. "Happy birthday, mum!"

It's all mental management. Whether you can do something or not is in your head.

When you really think about your hand you begin to realize its connection, to sense the hum of your own being passing through it. When we look at a piece of the universe we should feel the same.

When we know about our ancestors, when we sense them as living and as supporting us, then we feel connected to the genetic life-stream, and we draw strength and nourishment from this.

Inspiration is intention obeyed.

See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. Rohypnol

Eighteen years since the Chernobyl disaster. Is it just me surprized? Still no superheroes!

I live near a remedial school. There is a sign that says, slow... children. That can't be good for their self esteem. But look of course on the positive side, they can't read it.

Yes, I have cancer and it might not go away, but I can still have a future because life goes on.

Ultimately, the purpose of magic is to free our potential, not bind us to ideas.

The memory of Cumshewa is of a great lonesomeness smothered in a blur of rain.

If you're going to lick the icing off somebody else's cake you won't be nourished and it won't do you any good,--or you might find the cake had caraway seeds and you hate them.

I hate Shakespeare. I think Shakespeare's rubbish.

I was at college doing performing arts, and just spending all my time mucking about, and the lecturers thought I would be pretty good at stand-up, so I gave it a whirl.

I think being successful in comedy is being funny and making jokes - anything beyond that is the icing on the cake.

Life is just to sweet to be bitter.

When we’re courageous enough to be with what scares us, we can awaken our intuition and create a new path for healing.

My father always used to say, "What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger," - 'til the accident.

When people come over to my house for dinner, I always have a vegetarian option. They can make do, or they can **** off!

Learn how to cope, sweet friend. There will always be dark days ahead.

I was in the South of France. I saw a Brownie on a school trip. She was holding up a book. It said on the front 'rough guide'. I thought: 'Yeah' she's not a looker.

My refrigerator is powerful. In fact, it has a direct link to my overall well-being.

I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face

I used to buy lottery tickets every week until I realised you could watch it on TV for nothing.

How many airports are there in the world?

About 25 years ago, I started out as a reporter covering politics. And that sort of just evolved into organized crime, because organized crime and politics were the same thing in Boston.

The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.

What the book does as a technology is shield us from distraction.

It is significant that the nationalization of thought has proceded everywhere pari passu with the nationalization of industry.

If it has a shelf life longer than you, don't eat it.

Quite literally, your gut is the epicenter of your mental and physical health. If you want better immunity, efficient digestion, improved clarity and balance, focus on rebuilding your gut health

I am trying to release endorphins here. I am not preaching to you - I am trying to make you laugh.

Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.

Everyone who is not happy must be shot.

Writing is a splendid sorter of... feelings, better even than paint.

I had a survey done on my house. 8 out of 10 people said they really rather liked it