Every accepted public quote

“It's a generational thing. It'd be great if some kids grew up with me as that Jason Bourne figure.”

“To me, God is like this happy bus driver.”

“What is wrong with me, that even this fucking loser won't give me what I want?”

“All I can do is listen to what my body needs and feels.”

“First fight. Then fiddle.”

“The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.”

“Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own”

“Writing is the delicate, difficult, and dangerous means of succeeding in avowing the unavowable.”

“Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.”

“You are not failure, is just that you choose to use your strength, time, money in fighting other people battles by the time you fight yours .You have lost your strength, time and money. choo...”

“Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term thinking.”

“I'm the guy that gets up at three in the morning to jot down an entire sheet of lyrics for something that won't be recorded for six months. You have to get it down when you can, because thou...”

“Every shining jewel comes from a crushing it never knew it could survive. There's good waiting for you.”

“I feel like the eight most at-risk years for young men or young women are the four they're in high school and the four they should be in college.”

“A lot of places I go are dangerous, like Tel Aviv or Rio, but that never stops me from going there and putting on a show. I have good security. I don't worry about that.”

“I've worked with wonderful actors like Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda.”

“The real breeders of discontent and alien doctrines of government and philosophies subversive of good citizenship are such as these who take the law into their own hands.”

“Reddit is a network where someone with a million karma points has an equal shot as someone with 10 karma points to hit the #1 post or comment.”

“You are bound, my hunch is, to make it just fine.”

“You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.”

“For a long time after childhood ended and before I expressed my femininity through androgyny, I really didn't like looking in the mirror much because I just felt like I wasn't attractive.”

“I promote a healthy lifestyle.”

“In addition to joblessness, of course, by the working of supply and demand, when you have a larger number of people unemployed, wages do not rise at the normal level, so that we had last yea...”

“Psychological mapping for political ends is now going to be part of every campaign.”

“I've said this over the years publicly - this is not a lucrative business. My goal every year is to break even with the White Sox.”

“I think a lot of people who want to be musicians terrify their parents because they don't have a living example of it in their families, and I did. So I always knew that it was possible.”

“We cannot change anything unless we accept it.”

“In September 1968, Rush played for around 20 people at a small hall in a church basement. We played songs like 'Spoonful,' 'Fire' and 'Born Under a Bad Sign,' and got paid $10. Then we went...”

“Raising awareness for Nepal was and still is an important role for me.”

“Sometimes you're going to be inexperienced, naive, untested, and totally right. And then, in those moments, you have to make a choice: is this a time to speak up, or hang back?”

“I was dyslexic and uneducated and left school at 14. I grew up in Finsbury Park, which was a pretty bad place where you had to fight and be beaten. It was just a constant roundabout of viole...”

“We require, as a species, the difference between what is safe and unsafe to define ourselves. Be it in darkness or in light, where we are means nothing without the comparison to the other pl...”

“I have a Maltipoo named Blondie. She is so cute!”

“There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.”

“Even though chess isn't the toughest thing that computers will tackle for centuries, it stood as a handy symbol for human intelligence. No matter what human-like feat computers perform in th...”

“My hobby of not attending meetings about recycling saves more energy than your hobby of recycling.”

“If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.”

“Parenting involves two separate activities. You have to change your child in that you need to educate your child and instill moral values in them. But you also need to celebrate your child f...”

“I'm not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other.”

“The faltering of our suburban living arrangement is probably certain. The response of suburbanites is not. Will they elect maniacs who promise to make America just like it was in 1997? Will...”

“I would much rather we concentrated on the immediate, still-potent dangers, such as nuclear weapons, runaway climate change, and so on. Sort those out, then worry about Hal 9000.”

“I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.”

“We may never really know if 2004 Democratic presidential nominee and Senator John Kerry was President Obama's original choice to be Secretary of State or if he settled on Kerry after his fir...”

“An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.”

“Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger. Instead of getting angry nurture a deep caring and respect for troubl...”

“Let me tell you something you already know. Life isn't complicated. Life doesn't suck. You need to change your priorities over time and stay ridiculously focused on your goals. That's how yo...”

“For years, Iran has worked to position itself to dominate the entire Middle East and to impose its version of radical Islam on society. It is actively working to destabilize Yemen, Lebanon,...”

“The iPod has taken away the whole platinum record sales prospect. Sincerity and specificity are going to be the hot commodities in music. Everybody can have anything that they want, so now i...”