Marc Maron Quotes

It seems people are more willing to let other people control their minds now and recreational drug use doesn't seem to have that same renegade sense of adventure that it once did.

I'm not for everyone. I'm barely for me.

Maybe depression is the most reasonable response to all the crap around us. Maybe it's the happy people who need medication.

That’s the big challenge of life—to chisel disappointment into wisdom so people respect you and you don’t annoy your friends with your whining.

Buying my wife a gun sort of like me saying, ' You know, I kinda want to kill myself, but I want it to be a surprise'.

You can't avoid pain in life. It's how you handle pain, that's what defines you.

In most cases the only difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment.

We need the children of Indonesia and the Philippines to manufacture our freedom of choice.

Well, evolution's just a theory.' And, I'm thinking to myself, 'Well, thank goodness gravity's a law.'

I'm not completely sure we aren't all living in a hallucination now.

Faith in the face of disappointment is only enhanced by laughter in the face of pain.

For my next trick I will make everyone understand me.

It's easy to maintain your integrity when no one is offering to buy it out.

Have you ever had one of those moments when you look up and realize that you're one of those people you see on the train talking to themselves?

Left wing, right wing, I am wingless and tired of trying to fly. Here comes the ground.

Jerusalem Syndrome is actually a rare psychological condition that occurs to some visitors to the Middle East. They get to Israel and just snap.

The truth is, I can’t read anything with any distance. Every book is a self-help book to me. Just having them makes me feel better.

Everyone is a little bitter. We're born bitter. The personality itself is really just a very complex defense mechanism. A reaction to the first time someone said, "No you can't.

When I was a young kid I loved Don Rickles, Buddy Hackett and Jackie Vernon.

The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive.

Your insecurity and neediness is what makes you a big neurotic ball of comedy genius.

Dogs are too much to handle. I don't need anything in my house that's needier than me.

Art is supposed to punch you in the brain, and it's supposed to stay punched.

Most of my comedy writing happens through improvisation on stage; doing it in the moment.

You get all excited to give her the ring, and it's real emotional, and you give it to her, and she cries. And a second later, you're like, 'Damn, I could have had a car.'

In the sixties and seventies you could probably name all the great comics. It was still special.

I think the reason Jesus is so popular, just on a celebrity level, is that he died at the peak of his career.

I didn't really want to kill myself, it just made me feel better to know I could if I wanted to.

They are not testing comics for drugs. If our job is dependent on that, there would be three working comics in the country, and two of them would have puppets.

I was also a big Woody Allen fan. When I got into college I listened to Lenny Bruce but it's taken me years to put him into context historically and really get what he did.

I'm sad to see the passing of the great drug warriors. I certainly did my part in that battle and I don't regret any of it.

I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired.

On some level any appearance on Television can be seen as a product endorsement.

I don't make a list of questions. Ever. I think a lot of my interviews are driven by my need to feel connection.

The bile makes it better. I am an information wasting machine - 100s of words a day.

Conversation is a beautiful thing. When I was a younger guy, just wandering around talking to people was what kept me connected to the world.

I look at every book as a self-help book.

I've become less angry and a little more humble by age and by experience and by going through the ups and downs of life.

The worst thing about living in this world, in general, is that things get overwhelming, and things cause a tremendous amount of despair and anxiety.

As a performer you are being used to keep people watching so the commercial endorsements that support the network can be seen by as many people as possible.

I think seeing Pryor's first movie, Live In Concert, when I was in high school changed my life. Pryor really put the heart in darkness for me.

I don't care what anybody says, I think that George Bush is absolutely the right president to oversea the end of the world.

Surveillance induced morality: relics of cultural retardation.

I used to do a lot of drugs. I didn't stop because I didn't enjoy them; I stopped because I couldn't handle the commitment.

There's nothing more horrifying than the possibility or the idea that you will just fade away into obscurity.

Comedy is obviously a matter of personal taste and the world always needs a clown and some people have no taste at all and any clown will do.

When you actually meet the devil and he offers you a deal most artists eventually negotiate.

You hope to see an arc of growth in your ability to become a character on television.

I'm happy, certainly, given the times we're living in, to be doing OK, and to not be worrying about money, and to be producing something I enjoy.

We live in a culture where people are self-centered and careerist and everybody seems to think they have too much on their plate or they just don't have time for other people's pain.