Every accepted public quote

“I try to be a guide for people, to make their darkness bright and to make the pathway light, and never to condemn or control or criticize.”

“I have an odd theory on happiness, and it bothers people. My general theory is that happiness is a reward for an animal doing what it should be doing. So if a horse runs, it feels happy. Or...”

“When Leo takes the record from me, it will hurt a little. But it's not just anyone taking it away. It's not a normal person. A Martian is taking it from me. That makes me feel a little bette...”

“Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours...”

“Maintenance will keep us where we are, growth will put us where we are going”

“'Enlightened Rogues' we made like the earlier ones: whatever tune came up, whatever direction it went in, that's the way it went. That's what we'll always do. I think if we ever stop doin' t...”

“If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk.”

“I joined an all-girl band in Detroit and, although I was a pianist and drummer, I was asked to play bass because no one else wanted to. When I strapped it on, it fit me as good as my leather...”

“There are challenges in terms of the measurement of VAR for what are known as nonlinear derivatives, where things like gamma and vega are important dimensions of the risk.”

“Base souls have no faith in great individuals.”

“The table is a meeting place, a gathering ground, the source of sustenance and nourishment, festivity, safety, and satisfaction. A person cooking is a person giving: Even the simplest food i...”

“Perhaps arising from a fascination with animals, biology seemed the most interesting of sciences to me as a child.”

“'Mary Poppins' was one of the best experiences of my life.”

“I get a lot of fan mail and stuff, and usually it's for me to sign stuff.”

“I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.”

“Let me tell you what changed my mind: it was when Donald Trump picked Mike Pence to be his running mate. I was convinced that Donald Trump knew exactly what he was doing, and he knew that wa...”

“Androgyny refers to a specific way of joining the 'masculine' and 'feminine' aspects of a single human being.”

“There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.”

“The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.”

“God gives different people different gifts, and there are some people that can listen to an instrument and within a fraction of a second tell, you know, where it's off key or what note doesn...”

“I grew up in Wisconsin loving hockey. I mean, I started when I was three years old on skates.”

“I think that televisions are unnecessarily complex. The irony is that as the pictures get better and the choice of content gets broader, that the complexity of the experience of using the te...”

“Life minimizes the number of materialistic women mainly through well-off men and boys whose main goal is to infect as many females as they can with HIV.”

“It's OK to be outspoken about your faith.”

“Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.”

“I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at...”

“Escapism has its place. I used to write 'Conan the Barbarian' for Marvel, which takes place in an environment completely removed from the real world.”

“No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.”

“People aren't coming to me looking for political essays or polemic - they're looking for a rattling good story.”

“I like those crisis moments - if you're on top of it and don't get pulled under by panic and fear, it's a very bonding thing.”

“Being timeless means you can listen to something when you're feeling a certain way, and it still has that same power as it did when you listened to the record for the first time. Timeless is...”

“There's no excuse for panel games, other TV comedy shows, or even live bills to be made up mainly of men.”

“My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didn't always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have.”

“King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian.”

“The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.”

“I do not make any apologies for my manner or personality. I come from a long line of very strong, black African-American women who neither bend nor bow. I haven't had very good modeling in s...”

“If you like easygoing, monogamous men, stay away from billionaires.”

“I still have the same beliefs as when I was in the monastery.”

“For everyone of us that succeeds, it's because there's somebody there to show you the way out.”

“Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.”

“The reading of a book was a journey. There was no need for souvenirs.”

“If you go back and look at the first issue of 'Indestructible Hulk,' if you have a sharp eye, you'll catch something that I totally forgot to put in there. In my horror, I only realized afte...”

“Walmart's Global Women's Economic Empowerment Initiative is working to create opportunity and empower women and girls in markets around the world.”

“If Monsieur X spent an eternity studying treatises on optics, he would never paint 'La Grande Jatte.'”

“You know you have a gambling problem when it's 4 A.M. at the Mirage Sports Book and you're walking around going, 'Hey you get the lacrosse scores?'”

“Obviously, international rugby is a different level, but there are some really good players around.”

“Overall, we think religion is a good thing. I mean, if we were godless society, we would have many other problems; the communists found that out.”

“I guess I have kind of a type. Pretty much anybody who shows up in a black leather overcoat, I've doubled for them.”