BookwormCleo

“You are Nicholas Ivanek-Williams. But I’m guessing you don't use the whole name when on stage, yeah?”
“That's right.”
“Because you wouldn’t sound like a comedian, yeah?”
“I suppose.”
“Because you'd sound like an eastern European lawyer?”
“What’s wrong with being eastern European?”
He looked around theatrically as if playing to some invisible audience.
“Nothing,” he said innocently, “I was just saying that’s what you’d sound like in the milliseconds between your name being called out by the compere and the audience making their mind up about you. Interesting that you didn’t ask what’s wrong with being a lawyer though, isn’t it? You just focused on the other part.”
“I don’t like lawyers.”
“Nobody likes lawyers, Nick. Even lawyers don’t like lawyers, that’s why they’re always trying to put each other off by wearing those silly wigs.”
― Angelo Marcos, Victim Mentality

“A doctor once told me about a patient with OCD who’d been stopped from using the sink as a way to prevent him washing his hands all the time. He’d ended up kneeling over a toilet bowl, dunking his hands in the filthy water in a bid to keep them clean. That’s OCD in a nutshell – rituals which are illogical even to the person doing them, but which we find impossible to stop.”
― Angelo Marcos, Victim Mentality

“In our lives, we come to moments of great significance that we fail to recognise, the meaning of which sometimes does not occur to us for many years.”
― Dean Koontz, The City

“You’re very eloquent, Nick,” Harold suddenly said to me, leaning across from the other side of the circle. “You certainly have a way with words. What is it that you do for a living?”

“I’m a stand-up comedian,” I said, wiping the tears from my face. “I make people laugh.”
― Angelo Marcos, Victim Mentality