7 Quotes by Angelo Marcos

You’re very eloquent, Nick,” Harold suddenly said to me, leaning across from the other side of the circle. “You certainly have a way with words. What is it that you do for a living?”“I’m a stand-up comedian,” I said, wiping the tears from my face. “I make people laugh.

Comedy is just anger with a dash of humour thrown in to cover the rage

You either love who you are onstage, or you love who you are offstage. Nobody does both.

This isn’t about killing people for fun. This is about justice. Justice for all the people whose lives end up broken and wasted, because the thing they’ve been looking for all their life doesn’t exist. It doesn’t exist! Even when they get it it’s not real! Doesn’t anyone see?

Grief is a virus – festering and lying dormant, then breaking through and decimating you, destroying you from the inside. It’s the bite of a black widow; you never see it coming, you never get a hold of it, and it always gets away. But the bite itself remains, stinging and poisoning and bringing you to the brink of death.

Being a functional member of society is overrated. It’s also surprisingly easy to fake.

A doctor once told me about a patient with OCD who’d been stopped from using the sink as a way to prevent him washing his hands all the time. He’d ended up kneeling over a toilet bowl, dunking his hands in the filthy water in a bid to keep them clean. That’s OCD in a nutshell – rituals which are illogical even to the person doing them, but which we find impossible to stop.