Quotes from Marc Maron

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

Hopefully standup will become special again.

The development of the comedy club industry destroyed the uniqueness and intimacy of the profession but it also created jobs for comics and bred some great performers.

When I was a bit older I had all of the George Carlin records, all of the Steve Martin records, all of the Cheech and Chong records and all of the Richard Pryor records.

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

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

Is it hard to make a living in show business? Yeah.

I know that the podcast is typically something I can do forever, because it's mine; it's just me and my producer and business partner, so it's our business.

I think sharing experience makes everything better. When people get talking about how they've overcome something or how they haven't, it's nourishing.

I'm a guy that after having experience in radio and stuff, if I can trust the people I'm working with, I get a real thrill with working with other people who are good at what they do.

There are a lot of things that I'm allowing myself to be, but it's a conscious effort to experience contentment for me. My brain doesn't do that naturally. I'm very overwhelmed all of the time.

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

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

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.

Imagining the worst has always been a great comfort to me. If there is turbulence there is an imminent crash. If she doesn't pick up the phone, she is fucking someone. If there is a lump it is a tumor. By thinking like this I protect myself from disappointment. And if anything other than the worst-case scenario unfolds, what a pleasant surprise!

If you don't like something it's okay to shut the fuck up about it and find something you do like.

In our interview, Conan said something about the secret of his success: "Get yourself in a situation where you have no choice." And that's what I'm doing, because I had no choice.

Worse than the feeling of loss that comes with a breakup is the feeling of losing. Loss is a state of emotional injury that you can get past; losing is a feeling of humiliation and defeat that stays fresh. The latter causes most of the problems in the world. If there is another man involved, it is almost impossible not to judge yourself as a failure and see him as an enemy.

We all have the right to cherry-pick the advice given us in order to do exactly what we wanted to do in the first place.

I guess we can start at the end but it's really the middle. Let's just call it the really bad part. My second wife, Mishna, brought it to my attention that I had an anger problem. She didn't say it like that. What she said was, "I'm leaving." Then she took her vagina and left.

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

I was thinking about how temporary disappointment can be if you don't linger on it too long and how there are beautiful things in the world if you look. It's up to you to find them for yourself.

I am beginning to see how grief has transformed me, humbled me, opened me up, cut through the bullshit of my being. It's not growth anyone wants to do. It's growth that has been thrust upon us, ripped from us, has come from being punched in the soul and kicked in the heart. You have no choice.

The next evolutionary step is into the screen.