Because we're comics and we pass each other on campus, we know of each other, and a lot of the time there's a mutual respect there.

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.

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

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

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

Do you think we find Jesus, or does He find us?

Low self-esteem is no better home to take a refuge. It does not keep you comforted from any danger

The red sands of Marrakesh, sprawling at the foot of the Atlas like a wounded Leviathan....

All fled—all done, so lift me on the pyre—The Feast is over, and the lamps expire.

Outside of the killings, DC has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

War was the ultimate chaos, a pounding, soul-destroying snarl, ending in blown-apart men lying unburied on the cold earth. There was nothing more cosmically chaotic than war.

A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands.

Robinson did not merely play at center stage. He was center stage; and wherever he walked, center stage moved with him.

Every 24 hours the world turns over on someone who was sitting on top of it.

Part of the reason I wrote the book was I wanted to understand for myself why such good people let themselves get treated so badly.