Every accepted public quote

“Believe in yourself and in your own voice, because there will be times in this business when you will be the only one who does. Take heart from the knowledge that an author with a strong voi...”

“Definitely, study is absolutely necessary in all forms - it's just like any talent that's born within somebody. It's just like a good pair of shoes when you put a shine on it, you know? Like...”

“With longevity comes, 'Nothing is going to kill me; I cannot irreparably damage my career.' Those days are over. The most I can sustain are fender benders.”

“The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent Agent.”

“Ghost stories and Sherlock Holmes mysteries were great. And I had a major soft spot for those 'Choose Your Own Adventure' books.”

“Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps.”

“At the age of eight, I discovered that I could write songs. My dad used to take them to the notary and register them so that nobody could steal them from me.”

“I like watching comedy shows. I only watch comedy or action.”

“I can stand in a crystal stream without another human around me and cast all day long, and if I never catch a single fish, I can come home and still feel like I had a wonderful time. It's th...”

“You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.”

“Your daily product determines how far you go”

“Becoming a parent expands you as a human being. I am having the most wonderful time. You've married, but the addition of a child strengthens and deepens everything.”

“In 1978, we adopted a new Bankruptcy Code in the United States, and a principal part of this was designed to adjust to the new corporation, to find ways to let a corporation that had gotten...”

“Many people agree with me that many things are not clear in football these days and it is not something people who watch football deserve. The situation will be the same while football is ru...”

“It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem.”

“As a young boy growing up on the South Side of Chicago, I was inspired by the nascent space age.”

“You can only be the great artist for so long - come out with effort after effort that garners all this praise.”

“Jim played - he had a great stretch in the middle of the round there, and Chad made that long putt on 16. Almost got that match. We ended up losing, but we almost won it, too.”

“I knew Berlin would have to become a kind of character in my new book, 'In the Garden of Beasts'. I had felt likewise about Chicago when I wrote 'The Devil in the White City' and Galveston w...”

“I think we live in an entertainment world where performers like to flaunt how great they are. The Conchords don't do that. Even when they stumble onstage, people like it.”

“I was raised by a strong single mother.”

“Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.”

“There are nuclear-weapons-free zones in several parts of the world already, except that they're not implemented fully, because the U.S. won't allow it.”

“The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.”

“My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music.”

“Hillary Clinton would raise taxes on so-called rich people, corporations, capital gains, financial transactions, and inheritance. Has there ever been an example where America has taxed its w...”

“Cheers to a beautiful time, full, of New blessings.”

“I want to see these bad, bad, bad, bad men come to grips with their humanity.”

“Without doing the big blockbusters, I wouldn't be able to find the money to go after little projects that I want to do.”

“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.”

“There is no question I consider myself a feminist, but I also think the term 'feminist' has become a topical thing to say without backing it up with any real action.”

“Religiosity is suffocating in Pakistan. It invariably stokes the fire in driving society to religious extremism.”

“To be willing to sort of die in order to move the reader, somehow. Even now I'm scared about how sappy this'll look in print, saying this.”

“Success demands singleness of purpose.”

“We don't look at the stars in the universe and say how tragic they are, how bruised they are, even though that is what they are. We look at them and speak of the beauty they contain. The ins...”

“I touch you knowing we weren't born tomorrow, and somehow, each of us will help the other live, and somewhere, each of us must help the other die.”

“In Philly, there are a lot of social programs. If you have a degree, you can go and apply. I was basically a social worker, but I became sort of a sub teacher in a special program, helping k...”

“The Web is going to capture an increasing share of people's attention, and billions of dollars are going to flow in. What Web 2.0 is about is harnessing those dollars in highly leverageable...”

“I want to figure out a way to not be stupid with money, then make a whole bunch of it, then I want to move to Outer Mongolia. I want to milk a yak. Maybe I'll just settle for a cow. Can you...”

“I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than Jerry Brown doing that. So it'll be a stark contrast, a career poli...”

“I read Nietzsche when I was a teenager and then I went back to reading him when I was in my thirties, and his voice spoke directly to me. Nietzsche is such a superb literary artist.”

“I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it rea...”

“Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating...too often fathers neglect it because they get so caught up in making a living they forget to make a life.”

“Nice people around Pittsburgh.”

“After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left.”

“I believe that in this new world that we live in, we often have a responsibility, you know, to actually go beyond the thou shalt nots - that is, the not harming others - and say we can help...”

“The script for 'In Good Company' was the first one I ever showed my dad.”

“Currently I'm not a crazy ex-girlfriend, but I can't promise I won't be one again.”