Quotes from Marc Maron

Have you ever had that moment when you are updating your status and you realize that every status update is just a variation on a single request: "Would someone please acknowledge me?

Every book is a self help book to me. Just having them makes me feel better...Reading is like a drug. When I am reading from these books it feels like I am thinking what is being read, and that gives me a rush. - Marc Maron, Attempting Normal

Every book is a self help book to me. Just having them makes me feel better...Reading is like a drug. When I am reading from these books it feels like I am thinking what is being read, and that gives me a rush.

I need to complicate everything to protect myself from success and to remain complicated and overwhelmed.

I did not scream, not yet. I had a series of odd thoughts as adrenaline blasted through my body. "Do I want to die to this song? It's a good song but do I want to die to it? What song would be a good song to die to? I should make a death playlist for my iPod for when I have time to decide before I die what song I want to hear. I'm an older guy. I could be on a treadmill and feel a pain shooting down my arm. Better pick a tune, fast.

I always think about suicide because I find it relaxing.

Years ago I did a particularly angry set onstage. I talked about AIDS, the end of the world, and how silly and hopeless life was. A guy came up to me after the show and asked, "Why comedy?" That was all he said. I was dumbfounded.

People don't talk to each other about real things because they're afraid of how they'll be judged.

It amazes me that we are all on Twitter and Facebook. By "we" I mean adults. We're adults, right? But emotionally we're a culture of seven-year-olds. Have you ever had that moment when are you updating your status and you realize that every status update is just a variation on a single request: "Would someone please acknowledge me?

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.

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?

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

I was an abusive, selfish, needy, angry asshole. Now I'm just kind of selfish, a little less angry, occasionally needy, with flights of asshole. I've grown.

If you can't afford the good food or if you can't afford health care or if you don't have a job or if your car is dangerous because you can't get it fixed and you DIE, you just lost the game-bzzzzz-thanks for playing extreme capitalism.

We're all carrying around some shit. When you hear the things people have gone through and realize you've gone through the same, it provides an amazing amount of relief. It give us hope. And I think that's what we're supposed to get from each other. The hope that, maybe, just maybe, we're going to be okay. Maybe.

That's an animal fable about humility. If you survive your mistake, you must learn from it. Accept that you're fragile, vulnerable, and sometimes stupid. Realize that you're not immortal and you've got to take care of yourself. And then laugh it off and fly away.

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

When you're young you really think you're angry for reasons and causes. As you get older, you realize you might just be angry.

There's something to be said that if everyone likes something there's gotta be something fucking wrong with it on some level. Unless it's ice cream.

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.

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.

Some people don't even realize they're bitter. If you don't know whether you are or not, here's a quick quiz you can give yourself. If you ever wake up in the morning and the first thing you say is "Oh, fuck, not again," you might be a little bitter.

Comedians in their infancy are generally selfish, irresponsible, emotionally retarded, morally dubious, substance-addicted animals who live out of boxes and milk crates. They are plagued with feelings of failure and fraudulence. They are prone to fleeting fits of manic grandiosity and are completely dependent on the acceptance and approval of rooms full of strangers, strangers the comedian resents until he feels sufficiently loved and embraced. Perhaps I am only speaking for myself here.

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