“Be willing to be unliked and ridiculed in order to speak the words of the One who matters most.”
“What stops me from taking myself seriously, even though I am essentially a serious person, is that I find myself extremely ridiculous, not in the sense of the small-scale ridiculousness of slap-stick comedy, but rather in the sense of ridiculousness that seems intrinsic to human life and that manifests itself in the simplest actions and the most extraordinary gestures. ”
“Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not. ”
“Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.”
“Art is a serious matter”