Quotes from Marc Maron

There's a fine line between cultural criticism and bitterness.

Some of you may be perfectly happy with mediocrity. Some of you will get nothing but heartbreak. Some of you will be heralded as geniuses and become huge. Of course, all of you think that one describes you...hence the delusion necessary to push on.

it can take twenty years to create an overnight success but what you don't hear is that that is the exact same amount of time it takes to create a bitter failure.

When you actually meet the devil and he offers you a deal most artists eventually negotiate.

I was with her for about six years before I asked her to marry me, which only means one thing: I shouldn't have done it! If you wait six years to get engaged, you are on the fence.

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

I'm about to get on a plane here, and I'm packing recovery literature. All I know is I'm going to be the guy reading the book on co-dependency. That's what I know about me.

People who have babies tell me I will know a love that is beyond anything I can imagine, and a joy that is indescribable. Love and joy? That sounds horrifying. I have no way of knowing whether I can handle either of those. I'm much better with need and fear. They are what ground me.

I don't hoard, exactly, but I get it. It's a response to our need and desire for purpose, order, definition, and a fortress. It's a calling that requires constant management, control, and obsessive attention.

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

For my next trick I will make everyone understand me.

I don't care what anybody says, I think that George Bush is absolutely the right president to oversea the end of the world.

The next evolutionary step is into the screen.

He does have that weird mixture of born again Christian and stupid that some people mistake for courage and focus.

I always thought I was funny, but I was very sensitive, and very provocative just to get a rise out of people.

I was married once before, and I stopped.