Every accepted public quote

“I exist here, now. I'm not much interested in the future. Or, more precisely put, I do not believe in the future. To exaggerate a little, I have no faith that I will still exist tomorrow or...”

“I just wish this social institution [religion] wasn't based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an accumulation of customs and myths directed toward proving something that...”

“Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.”

“In fact when I first got my Apple II the first thing I did was turn it on and off, on and off, just because I had the power to do so, which I'd never had on a computer before.”

“What does the brain matter compared with the heart?”

“When hope is fleeting, stop for a moment and visualize, in a sky of silver, the crescent of a lavender moon. Imagine it -- delicate, slim, precise, like a paper-thin slice from a cabochon je...”

“How they had dreamed together, he and she... how they had planned, and laughed, and loved. They had lived for a while in the very heart of poetry.”

“I'm not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel.”

“I talked to the general counsel of the DNC, and he assures me that every step along the way, when we were notified of these issues, that we changed systems, changed procedures, but these hac...”

“the greatest service we can do to education today is to teach fewer subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a medi...”

“My pregame music includes a nice little mixture. Probably a little Counting Crows, maybe some Avicii. Taylor Swift.”

“I liked Truman very much. He was precise and businesslike. After a while, it was his turn.”

“Life has its dimensions in the mysterious.”

“I think L.A. radio is learning from the Bay. The Bay is a very classic place. Mac Mall, C-Bo, all that stuff, they love their artists, they're old school up there. My first big concert was p...”

“I'm certainly not 10 pounds away from being an ingenue! Of course I would love to lose 10 pounds. I would never lie and say I don't think about it, but I don't think about it on a daily basi...”

“Party machinery is not a fortuitous development, but is the direct result of the requirements of practical politics. The necessity of nominating candidates for offices leads inevitably to th...”

“I believe orders should be obeyed, but sometimes you have to think about the orders you get.”

“It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And small groups of people can ha...”

“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.”

“Autism currently affects one in 88 children in the U.S., and its prevalence continues to rise. That's why it's important to help organizations like Autism Speaks raise awareness and funds to...”

“In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.”

“The pure Deity is in all places and all corners, and present every where all over: the birth of the holy Trinity in one essence is every where: and the angelical world reacheth to every part...”

“When people appreciate my work, that's satisfying as an artiste.”

“This nation is really ready for a woman president. It's taken time, but we're ready.”

“No matter the challenge that you face in life, your joy and happiness cannot be touched except you allow it.”

“But why, why, why can't people just say what they mean?”

“I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, be...”

“The right to justice is something that no one can bestow, nor take away, for it is in one's heart.”

“I'm a romantic slob!”

“Lawyers, judges, doctors, shrinks, accountants, investigators and, not least, journalists could not do the most basic tasks without a veil of secrecy. Why shouldn't the same be true of those...”

“As American freemen, we cannot but sympathize in all efforts to extend the blessings of civil and political liberty, but at the same time, we are warned by the admonitions of history and the...”

“The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space.”

“Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. 'Call-time' is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my 'call-time manager,' and a phone. Then I call peo...”

“My home life now is mostly women. They are better than us. They make me better.”

“Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.”

“The finest of all things is faith in God.”

“Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be able to approach.”

“Nobody is starving on the streets. We've always taken care of them. We take care of our own; we always have. It is not the government's responsibility.”

“Sea Shepherd does not condone, nor do we practise, violence.”

“Nothing has changed in our relationship with East West. We have no relationship with East West. We've been withholding our labour for almost seven years now.”

“Yeah, I play a lot of their games. Going way back to Bulls vs. Lakers to the later Live stuff, I go at it quite a bit. More than anything tough, I play Madden.”

“My belief is India's banking industry will continue to grow at two and a half times the GDP growth rate.”

“You're entitled your own opinions, but you're not entitled to your own facts.”

“I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really...”

“History has demonstrated that efforts to censure and control communication will not succeed.”

“Naples has given me so much, and that is why I am so happy here. The warmth and affection of the fans have given me extra confidence. I have a great deal of love for them and for this city.”

“Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk.”

“I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.”