Every accepted public quote

“The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is fun, and I basically just write about things that are entertaining to myself.”

“In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.”

“It's very important for the parents of young autistic children to encourage them to talk, or for those that don't talk, to give them a way of communicating, like a picture board, where they...”

“I'm thrilled with the work Tim Palen and his marketing team have done on the film. It's appropriately disturbing and thought-provoking how the campaign promotes 'Catching Fire' while simulta...”

“We'll watch 'Britain's Got Talent,' 'X Factor,' 'Come Dine with Me' and 'Masterchef.' But we don't watch 'Big Brother,' which is rubbish. I certainly won't be tuning into the new series of '...”

“Language is a virus from outer space.”

“When one shows up in jeans and a T-shirt, I strongly feel that the audience reacts in a very different way than when you show up in a sport coat and a tie.”

“The reason I like Steve Aoki is because I can trace my love of electronic music all the way back to when I was listening to not just new wave but to YMO [Yellow Magic Orchestra] which, to me...”

“You know I think that going into therapy is a very positive thing, and talking about it is really helpful, because the more you talk the more your fears fade, because you get it out.”

“I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933.”

“When you're first starting out, you want to keep making good movies. When you're young and you're black, you do a bad movie and you're through.”

“When you have a good knowledge about God, you will acknowledge Him in your life.”

“If this ice melts in Greenland it can shut down the Gulf Current.”

“Most of the corruption in Albany is legal corruption, not illegal bribery. It comes from campaigns being funded by millionaires and corporations.”

“I think the only way I could make something fun and big is if I don't expect it to be.”

“I just don't give off a great first impression.”

“Neither to heaven nor to hell, my journey is towards my home.”

“All I do is give interviews and spend time being photographed.”

“Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine.”

“People said that 'Fight Club' would be impossible to turn into a movie, but I think David Fincher loved that challenge.”

“No longer forward nor behind I look in hope or fear; But, grateful, take the good I find, The best of now and here.”

“First favorite character growing up was Spider-Man, second was Wolverine.”

“I think glamour has a genuine appeal, has a genuine value. I'm not against glamour. But there's a kind of wonder in the stuff that gets edited away in the cords of life.”

“It's important to make someone happy, and it's important to start with yourself.”

“History teaches us how to go forwards in the right way.”

“I'm sick of environmentalism.”

“The Miami Heat floor is great, but a lot of them are not.”

“I think, definitely, I was hugely influenced by - obviously like Adele and Florence the Machine. They were my complete idols growing up. But also, there were a lot of influences from my dad,...”

“And if there was something, suppose I wanted to write something really damning or embarrassing about one of the owners, that would really be a problem on the NFL's site.”

“Hate smolders and eventually destroys, not the hated but the hater.”

“Poverty comes not from lack of higher education but from lack of primary education.”

“I can bake. I made myself some nice French fries once. But otherwise I just eat out. Lots of salad bars.”

“I'm never sure one is exactly ready. You jump in, with both feet, into a very big fish pond.”

“Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given the...”

“When I left my grandmother's home in 1986 headed to Savannah State with two brown grocery bags filled with my belongings, nothing was going to keep me from realizing my dreams.”

“At school, I always wanted to belong to a gang, and no one would have me. So I'd have make my own gang, but with everybody else's leftovers.”

“We are each but a quarter note in a grand symphony.”

“I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading. So I made an economic decision, and it turned out...”

“The archetypal No. 10 is a skillful player who is more interested in being in possession than tracking to get the ball back.”

“In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.”

“The bottom line with a lot of bands that funk is being applied to is that they don't really listen to funk and aren't versed in funk. Like, you know, Gordon Lightfoot.”

“Whenever I see a Frans Hals, I feel the desire to paint; but when I see a Rembrandt, I want to give it up.”

“Standing in front of our hallway mirror, I am practising a few poses - one leg artfully bent, the opposite shoulder up - when the man of the house strides in and decides to share: a) I look...”

“I'm not sure whether it's going to be the downfall of Rome - social media. There are too many secrets.”

“A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.”

“I actually believe that you should not wash your jeans, ever. In Japan, they actually put them in the freezer. That kills the bacteria and makes them not smell anymore.”

“An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.”

“Implementing the so-called 'Buffett Rule' would restore some badly needed fairness to our tax system.”