Every accepted public quote

“You can't be funny for funny's sake. You try to get as outrageous situation as you can but it always has to be believable and based in real character motivations and what people would really...”

“But now I have a lot of little kids who watched Invader Zim whenever they could find it on television.”

“To reason logically is so to link one's propositions that each should contain the reason for the one succeeding it, and should itself be demonstrated by the one preceding it. Or at any rate,...”

“Skating has given me so much that it's priceless.”

“You know these love letters mix with whisky, just don't light a match when you kiss me.”

“Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.”

“I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat.”

“According to a Public Policy Polling survey, most Americans find lice and colonoscopies more appealing than Capitol Hill.”

“Something in the human psyche confuses beauty with the right to be loved. The briefest glance at human folly reveals that good looks and worthiness operate independently. Yet countless socia...”

“Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.”

“Even as a small child, I wondered why the Dominican nuns who educated me were subservient to the Jesuit priests who educated my brothers.”

“To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence, it would be to doubt everything; and then what is life for?”

“The Amazon lot are perfectly reasonable, level-headed people who just want to make TV programmes. I don't think they are the enemy of the BBC or the other way round. It's not a war; these th...”

“You're gonna know, if I have beef with somebody, then one of us is just falling out.”

“Trumpeting diversity undermines what you are trying to achieve in the first place. It should happen without fanfare.”

“Banks need to continue to lend to creditworthy borrowers to earn a profit and remain strong.”

“The worst is not so long as we can say, "This is the worst."”

“It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.”

“True wisdom is not acquired by capturing knowledge, it is earned by acting upon knowledge. True bravery is not the absence of fear, it is doing what you feel is the right thing to do, in spi...”

“I never liked Gandalf the White as much as Gandalf the Grey, and I never liked him coming back. I think it would have been an even stronger story if Tolkien had left him dead.”

“And I thought, eight years ago, when I began carefully charting the progress of American Gods, nervously dipping my toes into the waters of blogging, would I have imagined a future in which,...”

“Many people who no longer go to church end up falling prey to superstition.”

“Mourinho helped me grow. He taught me to be patient, to keep fighting, and to respect the coach's decisions. He helped me mature and turned me into a man.”

“We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived.”

“There is no great religion without a great schism. All of them have it. And that's because you're dealing with something called faith. And faith is not something you can prove; faith is pers...”

“All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays... a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not d...”

“A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.”

“A church is an incubator, a nursery, a grade school. You start where people are and move them to where they need to be.”

“Not being excited is to have missed the whole point of life.”

“Women absolutely deserve respect.”

“And at NYU, I went to the Atlantic Theater Company, and they have two main points. One of them is to always be active in something instead of just feeling it. And the other is figuring out y...”

“The reason 'The Carol Burnett Show' did so well in the ratings is because people were looking for that comfort zone when the whole family sat around and watched television and enjoyed it.”

“All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram.”

“If I could choose, I'd be bare feet with animals all around me and living in a tree house. Like Tarzan and Jane, that's my dream. I'm at my happiest around nature.”

“Between the lines of every book the writer reveals their own secrets.”

“We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.”

“I've rewritten other films and watched my writing be mutilated, but luckily, it's been mutilated anonymously.”

“I can live a life anticipating beginnings or survive a life dreading endings. So maybe I should begin ending the dreading.”

“It's a team game. Not every game is going to be an all-star game.”

“When you go after someone who has a deep ideological belief set that is contradictory with your own, it's conversion. Conversion is hard. Conversion is miraculous. We have entire religions b...”

“It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.”

“The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.”

“I think I will serve as secretary of state as my last public position.”

“The reality is the majority of us will not get off this planet. So the long run is, some kind of space exploration has to benefit us here on Earth.”

“I can't imagine life without Poland. I find it very hard to find a place for myself in the West.”

“You know how the church has been hit so hard by the sexual misconduct by clergy, and what's that's done to Catholics, especially here in Boston but elsewhere as well.”

“Your grandma used to always tell me that just because something is over doesn't mean it wasn't successful. All things end at some point.”

“I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.”