Hey Mom Quotes

“When you're young, you do drugs that could kill you. When you get old, you just want drugs that can keep you alive. Full circle, baby.”
― Louie Anderson, Hey Mom: Stories for My Mother, But You Can Read Them Too

“At some point you have to park your past and put yellow caution tape around it so you don't keep going back to it. Because there's nothing like lounging around in your past and all that self-pity.”
― Louie Anderson, Hey Mom: Stories for My Mother, But You Can Read Them Too

“Life is finite. (Duh.) Time is valuable. (Ditto.) And so am I. I'm valuable. I'm starting to treat myself as valuable.”
― Louie Anderson, Hey Mom: Stories for My Mother, But You Can Read Them Too

“Mothers are artists, in their way, wouldn’t you say? They’re like symphony conductors of entire lives. They’re painters or sculptors. And not only is it really hard to shape clay into something really good, but that piece of clay is changing dramatically, all the time, even if you never touch it. A painting won’t get painted if you just leave the canvas alone but a child will still develop into something even if you neglect it. Each mom and each dad has to adapt to what they’re trying to make, hoping to make, and Mom and Dad also have to let that child turn into the creation he or she wants to be. Oh, and then lots and lots of moms and dads have to do this with two or three separate creations, simultaneously. Or, in the case of you, Ora Zella, with eleven creations. How is that not way more impressive than anything a great painter does? Picasso, Shmicasso.”
― Louie Anderson, Hey Mom: Stories for My Mother, But You Can Read Them Too

“I wonder how many people look at their own lives as having an arc, and live their lives accordingly, given the built-in certainty of cancellation. We’re all going to get canceled someday. We just don’t know how many seasons we’ll be around for.”
― Louie Anderson, Hey Mom: Stories for My Mother, But You Can Read Them Too

“Anyway, Lisa probably said it best: “We made our own happiness but I don’t think we were a happy family.”
― Louie Anderson, Hey Mom: Stories for My Mother, But You Can Read Them Too

“The mind wanders when it’s never totally satisfied.”
― Louie Anderson, Hey Mom: Stories for My Mother, But You Can Read Them Too