Every accepted public quote

“I have a deep, deep belief that if I tell you I'm going to crack you with a clean shot to the chin inside one minute of the first round and you will be unconscious, well, then that's what wi...”

“I write - so it would seem - to recapture, to preserve and return to the past, though I might just as easily be writing to forget and put that past behind me.”

“When you think about it, we're strapping strange planks of wood to our feet and launching off of giant snow walls. It's pretty intense.”

“On the same bill and on the same side of it there should not be two charges for the same thing.”

“Madly in love after so many years of sterile complicity, they enjoyed the miracle of loving each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were t...”

“The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book.”

“I've always said that lovingkindness and compassion are inevitably woven throughout meditation practice even if the words are never used or implied, no matter what technique or method we are...”

“If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.”

“My thoughts are all over the place as I fall asleep, and images of clouded roses and angry green eyes flow through my dreams.”

“If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.”

“Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.”

“The first rock stars were incredibly theatrical. Little Richard and Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley - they were theater artists.”

“I don't really set out to explore grand themes. I set out to tell a story. And one I have to be able to imagine right through.”

“I like bawdy humor. I love bawdy humor, but not dirty humor.”

“When I think about 2017, I feel like it was just another year. It was a whirlwind, but I wouldn't have wanted it to play out any other way. I'm glad I was in New York. There's nowhere else I...”

“Pate a choux is a mixture of simple ingredients - flour, water, milk, eggs - but the proper technique is essential. Unlike other doughs, the pastry is pre-cooked on the stovetop before being...”

“I caught myself thinking about falling in love with someone who I hoped was out there right now thinking about the possibility of me, but I quickly banished the notion. It was that kind of t...”

“The idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception.”

“Every profession will have its rogues, of course, no matter what oaths are sworn, but many health care professionals have a real commitment to serving the best interests of their clients.”

“For a crowd to be smart, the people in it need to be not only diverse in their perspectives but also, relatively speaking, independent of each other. In other words, you need people to be th...”

“I do not want to be associated with those that are willing to support undermining the basic human rights that socialists have fought and sacrificed themselves to secure and protect over gene...”

“My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot m...”

“I'm hoping that maybe everyone on the Olympic team thinks that I'm worthy to carry the flag. That's my next goal, to carry the flag during the opening ceremonies, if everyone chooses me.”

“What you see of me on TV and all of that, that is me - that's truly how I feel. I'm just multiplying it. It's that arrogance, that confidence, the belief that I'm the best, and there's a tru...”

“As for mercury, a child will almost certainly get more mercury exposure from her immediate environment than from vaccination. This is true, too, of the aluminum that is often used as an adju...”

“Most of the time I was in the Northeast, I lived in the country, and I think that helped me to discover my material for writing.”

“I'm vomiting days before I start shooting a new movie.”

“I tend to spiral out of control if I'm not working. I get panicked and don't know what to do with myself.”

“People are like bees. They're all workers who could be queens, with the right stuff, but once a queen-making has begun, it can't be reversed. A bee that's half way a queen can't turn back in...”

“My successes already accomplished have mostly been taking existing science and getting people to apply it in their everyday lives.”

“We did great things when we were in Congress, and I want to continue work on the issues that matter to South Florida, because we deserve better.”

“A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.”

“Ironing is a great diversion from the reality you don't want to face.”

“I don't believe in pressure. The pressure is not being prepared for what you want to do.”

“How many stopped-up men and women does it take to produce one Einstein? Ten? A thousand? A hundred thousand? ... So this is what Einstein meant when he looked me in the eye that day and said...”

“Hector Lavoe is the greatest of all time. Marc Anthony is the second greatest.”

“I had a couple of really cool friends when I was a kid, and we'd find cool music and movies and show them to each other. My friend Dennis had a copy of 'A Clockwork Orange' and he'd already...”

“Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn't break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out very slowly.”

“I'm not entangled in a bunch of lawsuits and a web that I can't get out of. I can hold my head up... a happily married man who has his head in order. There isn't a bunch of scandal in my lif...”

“My body's weird and bent in different ways, but it's handy for the tango!”

“Asymmetric balance creates greater reader interest. Pleasure derived from observing asymmetrical arrangements lies partly in overcoming resistances, which, consciously or not, the spectator...”

“I would like philanthropists to take more risks and invest more in risk capital.”

“It would be impossible to estimate how much time and energy we invest in trying to fix, change and deny our emotions - especially the ones that shake us at our very core, like hurt, jealousy...”

“Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be.”

“You have made him live.”

“But even before that, in 1980 I went so far as to write a book about what had happened. And I wrote all about the bank robbery, I went ahead and printed it even though I had no use immunity...”

“The realm of God is dangerous. You must enter into it and not just seek information about it”

“Chefs are nutters. They're all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.”