The New One: Painfully True Stories from a Reluctant Dad
Mike Birbiglia
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I don’t go to church, but I regularly attend the Museum of Natural History.”
“A joke should never end with “I’m joking.”
“This book is an experiment. We figured it out as we went along. Sort of like a family.”
“Jokes have been ruined by people who aren't good at telling jokes. A joke should never end with "I'm Joking.”
“Aging is like climbing to the top of a mountain and then you either jump off and die or inch your way down until you fall to your death. I never imagined the inching part, just the climbing.”
“have the body of someone who’s just about to embark on a robust exercise regimen and then doesn’t.”
“Writing is always a process of trial and error, but this was writing about my own errors, so the errors felt compounded, like I was re-living my own mistakes and failing at that too.”
“We joke about things we're most anxious about to diffuse the anxiety of the actual threat.”
“Pizza is a Band Aid for so many problems.”
“My brain is like a Snapple cap. It can hold one piece of information at a time.”
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Book Keywords:
brains, information, pizza, trivia, jokes, useless, knowledge
