Every accepted public quote

“Everything should be made as simple as possible ... but not simpler.”

“If you look deeper into anyone's eyes, you will see yourself.”

“I like to be adventurous.”

“Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.”

“History is something that never happened, written by a man who wasn't there.”

“Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.”

“What's nice about concrete is that it looks unfinished.”

“When, President Obama, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours still to mock us? When is there to be an end to that unbridled audacity of yours swaggerin...”

“Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.”

“Everyone has the fire, but the champions know when to ignite the spark.”

“I don't see myself as a pop artist. Like, when you hear 'pop,' you're like, 'Oh, bubblegum, jumpy little girly stuff,' and I feel like, 'Uh-uh. That's not me.'”

“Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are...”

“I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.”

“Forgive people when they laugh at your dreams, I assure you, In a matter of time, they soon will start dreaming”

“Every time you revisit a book, you get something else out of it.”

“A good book is an event in my life.”

“Dip your toe in every ocean and try everything and anything.”

“I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordaine...”

“My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't read for pleasure. When I visit their homes, the children's rooms are crammed with expensi...”

“Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.”

“The way I make something out of nothing, I got that from my mama. That's 100% her.”

“Humor starts like a wildfire, but then continues on, smoldering, smoldering for years.”

“I've been a UNICEF ambassador since I was 17.”

“There are no permanent changes because change itself is permanent.”

“The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But...the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help...”

“We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.”

“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.”

“A SMALL PIECE OF TRUTH I do not carry a sickle or scythe. I only wear a hooded black robe when it's cold. And I don't have those skull-like facial features you seem to enjoy pinning on me fr...”

“I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all...”

“Till tired, he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er.”

“Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.”

“Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.”

“Women are the true maintenance class. Society is built upon their acquiescence and upon their small and necessary labours.”

“Make it your profitable habit to carefully study facial expressions. You can see the entire human drama in a face; you can tell its owner's history.”

“Kaz Brekker didn't need a reason. Those were the words whispered on the streets.”

“I mean, most people want to escape. Get out of their heads. Out of their lives. Stories are the easiest way to do that.”

“I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.”

“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”

“Where thou art, that is home.”

“The thing about fashion - it's like ducks going quack, quack quack. It's being dictated from above, and it just makes me want to rebel against it.”

“I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wick...”

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

“History has demonstrated time and again the inherent resilience and recuperative powers of the American economy.”

“Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it.”

“If we can put a man on the moon, we can make pantyhose comfortable.”

“If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.”

“It's not really an easier racket than acting is. For some reason, I guess it had - the rejection of an illustrator's life is less penetrating than the rejection of an actor's life. So I was...”

“People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn't bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine them...”