I'd do almost anything for you. I think I'd kill for you. But I'm not going to comfort you while you cry in my arms over another man. - Gage Travis
I'm tired of being the funniest person in the room.
If we treat each other as if we are geniuses, poets and artists, we have a better chance of becoming that on stage.
Where do the really best laughs come from? Terrific connections made intellectually, or terrific revelations made emotionally.
The more you know, the more you can make fun of
It's not about the journey. It's about the people you meet.
The absolute worst thing you can do in a scene is be apathetic.
Photographs can be forms of recruitment, ways of bringing the viewer into the military, as it were. In this way, they prepare us for war, even enlist us in war, at the level of the senses, establishing a sensate regime of war.
The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed.
I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there were many, many unpublished short stories, abandoned screenplays and novels. . . a Library of Congress worth of awful literature.
Something is very, very wrong with American culture. The signs are everywhere. I think the country is in almost terminal descent. The business class is combined with the evangelicals. And I think the evangelicals want to provoke an immense global disaster to precipitate the second coming of Christ. So they are very happy about what we're doing to Iraq - and the menace we present now for Syria and for Iran - because they think that the apocalypse is an important thing to get into so that they can see vindicated their most literal interpretation of the Bible.