Quotes About Perspective

It's funny: your happiness is contingent on a bigger picture besides just yourself.

I didn't think I'd be getting a contract at 34. That wasn't in my mind.

I think of the friends of mine who were blissfully single in their 20s and 30s. Still single in their 40s and 50s, they seem to be contracting a bit.

As your life expands your focus expands or contracts.

I don't think it's a contradiction to find painfulness funny.

My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that.

It's quite hard for people to just accept that they're very contradictory.

Contrary to assumptions in the law, white America is hardly a monolith.

You always find women contribute to a relationship more than a man.

If the main contribution that Christians make to culture is complaining about it, we're doing something wrong.

I can't control other people, what their beliefs are.

I'm worried about what I can worry about and controlling what I can control.

I don't like controversies. I try to understand where a person comes from and where he is.

Not everything is about causing controversy. That would be a very boring way to go.

I like the idea that my audience doesn't see what I do as controversial.

There are opportunities that I have because I'm a white dude, and it's controversial because that's just the way that the world we live in kind of is.

If we now find ourselves looking down on the cheap and convenient, it is only because we now have better things which are affordable.

I'm very conventional compared to my parents.

I've been approached after shows from people who said, 'I don't agree with anything you said, but I laughed the whole way through.' That's still a little strange to me. Like, nothing, really? But at the same time, that's what happens in a conversation.

Conversations create change. It's easy to call someone 'enemy,' but there's more to it, right?

We are shaped by our conversations.

Overhearing people's conversations about art - that's always entertaining.

I think most people's conversations are as light as they are dark. That's how life is.

I'm a big 3-D convert.