erricawilkinss’s most recent Quotables

Don't be so damn hard on yourself. Yeah, you screwed up. You're not perfect, fine. Learn from it, but don't punish yourself. Be kind to you, even when you screw up. You'll bounce back eventually, you'll make up for it.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

Count your blessings – not your troubles.

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

A library's function is to give the public in the quickest and cheapeast way information, inspiration, and recreation. If a better way than the book can be found, we should use it.

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” –

I like to crack the jokes now and again, but it's only because I struggle with math.

Don't be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable. For sketch writers, remember they're called sketches for a reason. They're not called oil paintings. Some of them are going to stink. You have to let them stink.

The difference between male comedy writers and female comedy writers is that the male ones are taller and weigh more. They also fake-rape each other more. Female comedy writers pretty much never fake-rape each other. The women comedy writers do not urinate in cups around the office.

There are a couple of things I want to impart to ladies who want to be in comedy: One, you don't have to be weird or be quirky to get your job done. And two, comedy skill is not sexually transmittable. You do not have to sleep with a comedian to learn what you're doing. Male comedians will not like that advice, but it is the truth.

Amy Poehler and I have been friends for so long, we’re like Oprah and Gale. Only we’re not denying anything.