Every accepted public quote

“Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.”

“Language was the best invention for the mind and the worst invention for the soul”

“There's plenty to read about keeping your sanity while raising children, but it's all common-sense stuff about task division and taking breaks and the relentlessly repeated magic of date nig...”

“Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.”

“There are always going to be encounters that you kind of wish went differently. But the average fan really isn't fanatical.”

“The child who acts unlovable is the child who most needs to be loved.”

“Shane Smith has led Vice from a fledgling magazine into a global media brand, and all of us at A+E are excited to work with him and his passionate and innovative team.”

“You can get the dart player out of the pub, but you can't get the pub out of the dart player.”

“Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.”

“Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.”

“The joy of my heart is to 'study men, their manners, and their ways,' and for this darling object I cheerfully sacrifice every other consideration.”

“When I'm breaking in a character like Jessica Jones, I have this amazing opportunity to create her backstory. It's all of the work that happens before I'm ever on camera... Writing 'Bonfire'...”

“Starting at about, I guess, forever, I've always looked forward to getting older. When I was 14, I couldn't wait to be 16 and get a driver's license.”

“You know when they say you need to put people who go well together? I much prefer to put people who fight at the table. Then you have some sort of sparkle at the dinner!”

“If left-wing extremism continues to flourish in parts which have natural resources of minerals, the climate for investment would certainly be affected.”

“One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.”

“How had this happened? Everyone in the world knew more than us, about everything, and this I hated then found hugely comforting.”

“Photographic memory is often confused with another bizarre - but real - perceptual phenomenon called eidetic memory, which occurs in between 2 and 15 percent of children and very rarely in a...”

“Delegating doesn't mean passing off work you don't enjoy, but letting your employees stretch their skills and judgment.”

“You know, there were 29 Democratic votes for censure in the Senate. And if the Republicans had any sense, they would have censured him before the '98 midterm election, and they would have wo...”

“Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.”

“When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed - that's the finest I know.”

“In high school I had sex with girls quite a few times. They were straight women who I convinced to jump in the sack with me.”

“Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you.”

“I always felt that at the moment I was born, God must have blinked. He missed the occasion and never knew I had arrived. My parents had 11 children. While I love them and my five brothers an...”

“I do like 'Game of Thrones.' I really like it.”

“Christians - whether as a priest, a nun, a minister, whatever - have just been stereotyped to death. You try to be a model of kindness and love and forgiveness to all those around you, becau...”

“Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.”

“If I ever said in grief or pride, I tired of honest things, I lied.”

“I make no secret of the fact that writing She-Hulk can serve as an opportunity for me to sneak in some really cool characters that I personally love. Some will be obvious fits, but others wi...”

“With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.”

“I'm a mentor to anybody who's interested.”

“We are in a global war with a radical and violent form of the Islamic religion, and it is irresponsible and dangerous to deny it.”

“I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.”

“I grew up in a household in which they'd always play old skool classic R&B love songs - Al Green, Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye... And my mom has even said that, when I was in her womb, she'd put t...”

“Professor Al Drake encouraged me to just write the way I talk. I decided if that's what I needed to do, I didn't need to be in school to do it.”

“I'm in a museum. I'm a relic.”

“The systematic experimental study of reproducible errors of human reasoning, and what these errors reveal about underlying mental processes, is known as the heuristics and biases program in...”

“If I go to the department store, I get no excitement: I can buy the entire department store instead of one bag. So I lost excitement of shopping.”

“Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.”

“And now. This moment. It moves too fast. This is the practice, the way we slow down time. Each breath is a gift, each one an opportunity for reflection, focus, and purpose. What's gone is go...”

“What we do is service a story first, and then you figure out how to pay for it later. If the narrative isn't your primary focus, then the movie is going to become diluted, and you don't have...”

“I'm a homebody.”

“A child's mind is its living room; it's is going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence.”

“In examining witnesses, I learned to ask general questions so as to elicit details with powerful sensory associations: the colors, the sounds, the smells that lodge an image in the mind and...”

“Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.”

“... My cosmic desires freeze in an apocalyptical healing Of agonized thoughts, of betrayed hearts, of dancing daemons Alleviate my nightmares and calm my deep thunders ... (Excerpted from He...”

“Perhaps the main stumbling block to a better, and more fruitful, theological relationship with Judaism and the Jewish people has been the tendency of many Christian theologians to see the Ch...”