Marc Maron

“I think seeing Pryor's first movie, Live In Concert, when I was in high school changed my life. Pryor really put the heart in darkness for me.”

“The bile makes it better. I am an information wasting machine - 100s of words a day.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“In the sixties and seventies you could probably name all the great comics. It was still special.”

“I'm not completely sure we aren't all living in a hallucination now.”

“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.”

“Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to own just a portion of your soul because he knows if you have a performer's ego you were probably working for him all along.”

“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.”

“As a performer you are being used to keep people watching so the commercial endorsements that support the network can be seen by as many people as possible.”

“On some level any appearance on Television can be seen as a product endorsement.”

“Surveillance induced morality: relics of cultural retardation.”

“Comedy is obviously a matter of personal taste and the world always needs a clown and some people have no taste at all and any clown will do.”

“I didn't know that people compared Bill Hicks and I but certainly I'm flattered if they do. I knew Bill a bit. We had dinner a couple of times and played guitar together once. I really tried to keep my distance from him professionally.”

“The next evolutionary step is into the screen.”

“For my next trick I will make everyone understand me.”

“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.”