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Comedy is the difference between how you see a person and how they see themselves.
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I'm always looking for things that are so incredibly present that they become invisible.
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If you write fiction, you have to love your characters. It's like your family. You don't have to like them, but you have to love them.
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If you have a great idea, you should be able to communicate it as well. It's like the sound of one hand clapping. You have a great idea but aren't able to express it - well, how great was the idea?
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When you write, it's just a much more crystalline, compressed version of the voice you think with - though not the one you speak with. I think your writing voice is your laser-guided missile. It's the poetry part of you.
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We were never supposed to live until 40. We were built to self-destruct at 30, whether from cancer or mental illness. We're all going way beyond our expiration date.
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The way we experience history and time in all its forms shifted quite massively between 1989 and 2001 - to the point where contrivances like decades are now kind of silly.
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In Canada, we're happy to provide a safe haven for next-door neighbors in the middle of a marital dispute. And if anyone trips while crossing the border, we're happy to set their broken bones for free.
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I think most people either forget or don't know that Microsoft only hires people with I.Q.'s well over 130.
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I think half the people who get married now have met online. If I think about all the people in my life who married - they met online, online, online. And it makes sense if you think about it, because you fill out this form of 35 things that really define you and - bam - look, you've got two people who match. It works.
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In my mind, I've always checked out in 2037; that's always been my expiration date. I'll be 75.
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My house. It's kind of eccentric. It's two decades worth of accumulated personal projects. Yeah, it is pretty dense in my house.
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People say if you're doing an art project, that's different from a book, but I honestly don't see it. I try and try, and I just don't.
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It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't count.
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I know it's not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of tinned ravioli?
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The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.
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The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.
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Once you see someone lose it, you can never look at them the same way again.
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There's nothing cure or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off.
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A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.
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Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.
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On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they're listening to what you're saying, you're off the screen.
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I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.
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What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. How odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people.
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We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.
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It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either.
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In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich.
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With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless.
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What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much?
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Once you establish a look, and once everybody recognizes that look as your look, you never have to think about fashion again.
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