75 Quotes by Ruby Wax

It’s so common, it could be anyone. The trouble is, nobody wants to talk about it. And that makes everything worse.

I am lucky to have good Polish skin that doesn’t wrinkle so I might be around for a few years yet.

I’ve learnt that if you let out your anger on someone, it comes back to you like acid reflux and you’ve poisoned yourself and feel toxic and nauseated while the taxi driver probably just goes back to his home and wife and has a lovely life. I.

It’s amazing how we will suffer pain and abuse to keep our lives predictable. We’ll let our inner voices brutalize us, rather than live with the possibility that we might be wrong about how we see things. We’ll think, ‘Well at least it’s a pain that’s familiar’. Uncertainty.

I don’t combine proteins and carbohydrates.

By the time dessert arrives I am usually so drunk, I can’t remember what I’m serving.

I can’t do anything too serious like Saddam Hussein, but I would like to do Bill Clinton. That’d be fun.

The point is, we’re all changing all the time. You once found it hard to tie a shoelace and now you don’t even have to look. The change is so subtle; you think that whatever you feel like right now is how you always felt. Our brain can trick us into thinking life stands still. In the end this causes the human race the most heartache. Blinkered.

I’m a misplaced American, but don’t know where I was misplaced.