Every accepted public quote

“Straight between them ran the pathway, Never grew the grass upon it”

“Since she got a cause and stopped being funny. I think she's real funny, but lately it's all been hearts and flowers and tears and saving teenagers and creating a role model. And that ain't...”

“You're trying not to tell him you love him, and you're trying to choke down the feeling, and you're trembling, but he reaches over and he touches you, like a prayer for which no words exist,...”

“Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.”

“I don't look at a man who's expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.”

“You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.”

“Some writers like to boil down headlines of liberal newspapers into fiction, so they say there shouldn't be communal riots, everybody should love each other, there shouldn't be boundaries or...”

“I think the crux of the matter was that if we were going to become partners in, for example, the International Space Station, we had to gain the respect of a country like the United States a...”

“I don't think much about my physical body going off into the long, green fairways of Heaven to play golf.”

“I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'O...”

“I can make things, but I don't cook them, exactly. Like salmon, I can stick that in a pan. Or the other day I made noodles, but they were hard. It never occurred to me to check them; I just...”

“It just seems to me that the world's kind of a mess, and the more messy it gets, the more interested I am in escapist fare. Having a good time is something that isn't about the war in Iraq o...”

“I try to be well informed. I don't know how well I do all the time, but I try nonetheless.”

“I don't really worship the album 'Transformer.' It's not the best thing that Lou Reed has done.”

“Home was his favorite place too. But home for him was anywhere Jane happened to be. Never in his life had he loved someone as much as he loved her. So much that it scared him sometimes. He p...”

“I've been recognized a couple times. I get people staring at me, and I think in their heads they're thinking, 'How do I know her? Did I go to high school with her?' I think it's not register...”

“Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.”

“It's lack that gives us inspiration. It's not fullness.”

“Well, I'm a Christian. I was a born a Presbyterian and became an Episcopalian.”

“My mother worked when I was growing up, so I was under the impression I'd find it easy to be a working mum. But I found it very hard to be away from my family, even for short periods of time...”

“I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.”

“I love taking an idea... to a prototype and then to a product that millions of people use.”

“When you start becoming really successful, the demons start to tempt you - the demons of vanity and self importance, drug abuse, the feelings of fraudulence. But, it's also a thrill. That's...”

“You can wish what so ever you want but life have the last laugh”

“No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil; not that he practices it, but he suffers from it.”

“Next to filmmaking and stuff like that, skiing is my favorite thing. I go skiing in Aspen - everywhere. I have been skiing since I was 4. I just love it. I feel so free.”

“We call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but it's not. We give a false portrayal of freedom. We're not free - if we were, we'd allow people their freedom.”

“The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observ...”

“Organisms sip energy, because they have to work or barter for every single bit that they get.”

“Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a woman.”

“In terms of 'American Horror Story' and 'Nashville,' what attracted me to those, and 'Friday Night Lights,' for that matter, is that they felt like something innovative and something that we...”

“More and more, you're seeing television shows that are better than 99% of the movies out there. I mean, you watch something like the last couple of seasons of 'The Sopranos,' which is some o...”

“I remember noticing, when I had my babies, how much I liked them, and not just loved them, but I was really into them. I knew I was going to be curious about them and up for the mayhem ahead...”

“The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to b...”

“In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”

“No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.”

“If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.”

“There is no accountability today... no willingness to focus on big ideas.”

“True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.”

“It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her t...”

“I'm like the kid in kindergarten; I really do send valentines to everyone.”

“It never ceases to amaze me that I get to do this for a living.”

“One has to view things realistically.”

“There are a lot of funny things that happen in one's life.”

“It's a funny thing about cities: Some have brief, bright moments of cultural and political dominance, decades- or centuries-long spells when they seem the center of their particular nation,...”

“I bought a bar because we got banned from playing everywhere else. We were too nuts, and everyone was scared of us. It was Des Moines, Iowa, remember.”

“For of all sad words of tongues or pen the saddest are these: It might have been.”

“The Internet doesn't like you to learn too much about explosives.”