34 Quotes by Julia Sweeney

Why isn’t there a book about someone losing their faith and it being a beautiful experience?

Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that’s where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.

To a certain extent I am taking a leap of faith. I’m adding up the evidence on either side, and I’m seeing the evidence of there not being a God is overwhelming compared to the evidence for there being a God.

I think one of the basic tasks in life – one of the nice things we can do for each other – is to take things that are horrible and scary and make them acceptable and less frightening and, if possible, funny. It feels great to succeed at that.

I’m not a standup. I don’t really have jokes. I don’t have 10 minutes. It took a while for me to realize this.

I like going back and writing fiction.

Our family was too strange and weird for even Santa Claus to come visit... Santa, who was jolly - but, let's face it, he was also very judgmental.