Julia Sweeney Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“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.”

“Why not try thinking of your life as hilarious rather than nightmarish?”

“Well, you can't be depressed and sad 24 hours a day.”

“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 finally a suburban housewife. Honestly, it's my dream come true.”

“It's so weird to have someone tell you you're sick when you feel really healthy and good.”

“I'm not an activist. I'm trying to get off the whole atheist racket.”

“I went with agnosticism for a long, long time because I just hated to say I was an atheist - being an atheist seemed so rigid. But the more I became comfortable with the word, and the more I read, it started to stick.”

“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.”