“I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy”

“Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.”

“Everybody wanted to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief.”

“The goons needed some comic relief, and I needed an audience. I had found my niche.”

“… I'd been raised by my parents to believe barfing your feelings on other people was the height of impoliteness…”

“My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have to potential to be the comic stories the next.”

“I'd like to thank my parents for providing me with a high IQ & I'd like to thank my grams for encouraging me not to be a self absorbed idiot”

“There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask.”

“In my own therapy it was my experience that it was precisely the opposite of forgiveness —namely, rebellion against mistreatment suffered, the recognition and condemnation of my parents' destructive opinions and actions, and the articulation of my own needs— that ultimately freed me from the past.”

“Although according to certain philosophers it is quite difficult to distinguish the jester from the melancholic, life itself being a comic drama or a dramatic comedy.”