It sounds so nerdy and pathetic, but what I always... -Mike Birbiglia

It sounds so nerdy and pathetic, but what I always do on Sunday afternoon is bring my inbox down to zero, which is so sad. But e-mail has become like homework for adults. I'll have 141 messages from people who will be offended if I don't write back.

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It sounds so nerdy and pathetic, but what I always do on Sunday afternoon is bring my inbox down to zero, which is so sad. But e-mail has become like ...

My dad goes through war novels like I go through boxes of Cinnamon Toast Crunch....

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You can't go to medical school and come out and be like, 'I'm going to be a dog catcher.' That would be so pointless....

I love pizza. I want to marry it, but it would just be to eat her family at the wedding....

I feel that marriage can lead to the ultimate rejection and failure and divorce and things we all fear....

I never looked at my parents' marriage or really anyone who had been married more than 30 years and thought, 'I gotta get me some of that!'...

I've actually always wanted to write like a one-person show that was sort of a romantic comedy - a show that was kind of cynical about romance and mar...

Dopamine is a chemical released in your brain and your body when you sleep that paralyzes your body so you don't act out your dreams....

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The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want....

You get people who come to London, sever links with where they come from, and then when they need people, there's nobody there. To feel like you can't...

Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad....

It sounds so nerdy and pathetic, but what I always do on Sunday afternoon is bring my inbox down to zero, which is so sad. But e-mail has become like ...

I get to play characters that kind of shock people and I enjoy doing that. I like characters that have meaning and get people in the heart. I want to ...

I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I'm sure there are writers who have had happy childhoods, but what are you going to write about? No ghosts, no fe...

The hardest thing to get is true emotion. I always believe you need to earn that with the audience. You can't just tell them, 'Ok, be sad now.'...

I'm not going to do a song that's really sad and thoughtful. Although I've done ballads like 'Dear Darlin',' I want to make them dance and be happy....

If people are paying money to see me, then I want them to walk away from the show knowing they had a really great time. I want it to be very energetic...

I don't really do sad, depressing songs....