Every accepted public quote

“I connect much more with theatre actors than with cinema actors - insofar as you can speak of 'cinema actors' in Mexico, because there isn't a big film industry.”

“The poverty one still sees in America today is more shocking to me than anything I have seen in Ethiopia or Calcutta or Manila, and has made me, as someone living in a society of great wealt...”

“My favorite tennis player, who I'm amazed by, is Roger Federer.”

“There are occasions when I've pretended to be in a firefight, and then there are people who have really been in a firefight. Clearly it's absolutely ridiculous, and even disrespectful, to su...”

“I like having my cellphone. I like the Internet. I like being different.”

“Half the failures of this world arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. - from Guesses at Truth: By Two Brothers by Julian Charles Hare and Augustus William Hare”

“I like Joe Buck. I know there's a big divide on people that like Joe Buck and people that don't like Joe Buck. But I love his cadence and tone and professionalism, and he's smart.”

“I realize I've had this spirit-animal relationship with sweatpants. In a past life, I probably was a pair of sweatpants. There's something beautifully simple but highly underestimated about...”

“Everybody had to go to some college or other. A business college, a junior college, a state college, a secretarial college, an Ivy League college, a pig farmer's college. The book first, the...”

“My last name is all I have. I try to carry that to a high standard by setting high expectations.”

“I have no interest in anything so frivolous as the bona fide religion or mankind's pathetic debate over whose version of the church is correct. Circular arguments over the semantics of faith...”

“Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt have not been responsible. Instead they have vied in an arms race towards a more and more extreme form of Brexit. Deeper red lines, even more ludicrous promises...”

“To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it's also to feel, quite powerfully, that you're not allowed to descend in...”

“Fear is like a black cavern that is terrifying. Once you enter the cavern and explore it, you realize that you can get out of it, go through it and get out of it.”

“Cynicism breeds hate, whereas inquiry breeds understanding.”

“A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.”

“Recognizing that you are not where you want to be is a starting point to begin changing your life.”

“I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.”

“People have become less discriminating listeners, which is tragic, really. There's a lot of emperor's new clothes out there, whether they're female or male solo acts. That bothers me. It's h...”

“On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.”

“Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar?”

“Belief was uniquely human.”

“Even the largest of my dreams and ambitions, I realize with increasing dismay, were puny, measly, compared to the object of my dreaming. I would not say my life to date has been built overmu...”

“We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.”

“There's no doubt we'd be very angry if the American president had come to the Knesset and argued against the government of Israel.”

“I just bring a black turtleneck sweater everywhere - it's the greatest purchase of my life. Period.”

“By reaching for infinity, you reach the core of yourself.”

“Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.”

“I'm going to do as much as I can for the animal world, and I'll never stop.”

“Fashion is so subjective, and I think it should be playful.”

“It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exha...”

“Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It's self-defense. It's patriotism.”

“I know that when I talk to my parents and my friends, there's a strong feeling of the world out of control and damaged.”

“Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.”

“I think the movie industry has to pay attention that we need to make good quality films, or we are never going to get the business back.”

“I seek the Will of the Spirit of God through, or in connection with, the Word of God. The Spirit and the Word must be combined. If I look to the Spirit alone without the Word, I lay myself o...”

“I think when I went to psychoanalysis, I actually believed that people said what they meant. This was my whole problem.”

“There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life.”

“Yes, I met with Arsene Wenger, who is a great coach. He has a great reputation here in France, he's well-respected and knows how to develop young players.”

“Eighty per cent of my output is 'Mallory clowns on the Western canon,' and I'm happy to be that person.”

“For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.”

“There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.”

“Every time I get in front of an audience, I do the best I can. I really don't look at it like, you know, 'This is gonna be this crowd, or that crowd.' If anything, I think about the demograp...”

“I wouldn't be in a huge hurry to go back to Kansas. It was just bizarre. There's a lot of very, very heavy set people who believe in whatever they were told, because they didn't seem to get...”

“I'm not cheap, I'm thrifty.”

“A novel must show how the world truly is, how characters genuinely think, how events actually occur. A novel should somehow reveal the true source of our actions.”

“I like a good suspense thriller when it's smart and well done like 'Armed Response' is.”

“Every math problem is hard if you don't know how to solve it.”