Marisha Pessl Quotes

I'm severely overrated. I'm just above a hack. That should be the name of my new DVD: 'Chris Rock: Slightly Above Hack'.

I can't persuade myself that one of the problems facing the planet today might be a shortage of books by me.

I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.

Most of the characteristics which make for success in writing are precisely those which we are all taught to repress ... the firm belief that you are an important person, that you are a lot smarter than most people, and that your ideas are so damned important that everybody should listen to you.

My father has a high opinion of his opinion

Calvin: I'm a genius. I can't believe how smart I am. ...I've got more brains than I know what to do with. Hobbes: So I've noticed.

People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.

Yes sir, I am a tortured man for all seasons, as they say, and I have powerful friends in high places. Birds sing where I walk, and children smile when they see me coming.

I'm Chevy Chase, and you're not.

I love creepy old dudes. I love that they have so much self-confidence, despite having no evidence whatsoever to back it up.

Face it, you have to be sort of an egomaniac to write something down and think that anyone is going to want to read it.

I've turned arrogance into an artform, where it's so absurd that it becomes comedy. But I've never done anything to hurt anybody or steal from anyone.

The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.

It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.

I was probably being a little cocky, which I do when I feel that I don't know what I'm talking about.

I own and operate a ferocious ego.

While certainly no pressing threat to Gordon Lightfoot, I knew it was simply a matter of time until I was going to be a star.

It's not good for comedy to be like, 'Thanks for liking me.' Being popular is poison.

It's not about ego. Really. If it was ego, I'd be telling you about my awesome... oh, never mind.

I'm the most successful bad player ever.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

Ego is hilarious - especially the vanity of a comedian. As soon as you see one start worrying about how cool he is or about how many stadiums he can fill, he stops being funny.

Anyone who takes themselves very seriously, or is in any way pompous, or thinks of themselves quite highly, as soon as you pull out one little thread, you find one little chink... that's when it's the funniest.