Quotes by Patton Oswalt

I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes.

People will find transformation and transcendence in a McDonalds hash brown if its all theyve got.

I want to experience as many different tastes, sights, emotions, conflicts, and cultures as possible, so that I can expand the canvas of my memory and enrich my comedy.

Does anyone act more like an overserious senior citizen with time running out on their chance for immortality than someone in their twenties?

hobos (a slang term that combines the words hope and bowl of beans given to me for free by a woman who then initiated intercourse)

If someone like this were to like me, to like my comedy, and to like the way I conduct myself professionally, it would mean that I suck as a person.

Zombies cant believe the energy we waste on nonfood pursuits.

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, The good outnumber you, and we always will.

Ive gotten very cynical and kind of anhedonic about all the things I have to do to get to do comedy: all the travel, hotels, and airports.

Lot of ugly funny dudes end up with some pretty gorgeous women. Women are much deeper than us in choosing a mate - they see in the long term.

Ive had some pretty good arguments with people, but Ive never regretted it. Ive had people come up where its all emotion and no fact. Thats always sad.

“I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes.”