The PAIN of powerlessness is excruciating. It is the most PAINFUL experience in the EARTH school, and EVERYONE shares it.

To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, INCLUDING the WORST. The existence of the worst EVILS is unimaginable unless God willed them.

Next to INGRATITUDE the most PAINFUL THING to bear is gratitude.

I did yoga in both of my LABORS. It's painful, but it helps you, you're supposed to stay active and MOVE around. A lot of squatting. I didn't TAKE any childbirth CLASSES.

You spend so much TIME in the world of VIRTUAL that the actual - which nothing is more actual than stand-up - it's a painful experience for the audience, and the COMEDIAN a LOT of time - we miss that.

'The Haters' has some of the generalities of band EXPERIENCES that I've had - the camaraderie, the grubbiness, the outsized COLLECTIVE ambitions and frequent PAINFUL collisions with REALITY - but very few of the specifics. I guess it was a way for me to take some of my experiences to their logical crazy EXTREMES.

I didn't miss training because it had BECOME so painful for me. I filled the VOID pretty quickly as I went straight into COACHING and it was great; I had to START learning all over again, and then when I went into TV I KNEW nothing about it so I had to start from the very beginning.

It's PAINFUL for me to WATCH someone who isn't FUNNY. It's horrifying to sit in the BACK and watch some guy who just totally sucks.

Most PEOPLE want to AVOID PAIN, and DISCIPLINE is usually painful.

The conventional VIEW serves to protect US from the painful JOB of THINKING.

I was not POPULAR in school, and I was definitely not a ladies' man. And I had a very painful adolescence, because it was all very strange to me. It wasn't LIKE I got beat up, but the humiliation and isolation, and the existential 'God, I exist, and NOBODY cares' of being a TEENAGER were extremely pronounced for me.

I THINK divorce is a TRAGEDY, traumatic and horribly painful for everybody. That's why I wrote 'Smart Women.' I want kids to READ that and to think what life MIGHT be like for their parents. And I want parents to think about what life is like for their kids.

The COMING-of-AGE STORY has sort of BECOME a joke. It's something to CAPITALIZE on, and that is painful because when you are coming of age - when you are going through something like that - the genre is so meaningful.