Every accepted public quote

“Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.”

“The skating community is very fickle. And with me, they're especially fickle for whatever reason. Maybe I bring it on myself, but if you don't prove yourself and you don't skate consistently...”

“The lucky ones are just born dead.”

“I started running, and I hated it. Of course, everyone hates running for the first mile. If you're running two miles or twenty miles, it always hurts. Now I live it. I look forward to it. It...”

“Creative directors can be egocentric, they say. I decide; they shout at people and harass. I don't want that.”

“Violence is my last option.”

“But I found a lot of artists at the Cedar Bar were difficult for me to talk to.”

“You don't want to be too cool. But you don't want to be too dorky. Still, I find it so much better to see a guy at a club being a dork, and having fun, than trying to be sexy.”

“A light rain touches my cheek like an angel's butterfly kisses.”

“My ideal meal varies, depending on the time of year. Lobster on a deck overlooking a beach at sunset is one - but all my kids have to be there, because they are all lobster-lovers. Making a...”

“Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.”

“I have never cared especially for outdoor sports and have no desire to excel at tennis, swimming, or golf. I'll leave those things to the men.”

“People. They're not all bad, but do you really want to risk it? Perhaps that was the unofficial motto of the Soviet Union...”

“I am probably the last of a generation able to gain an education in country music by osmosis, by sitting in a '64 Ford banging the buttons on the radio.”

“In trying to justify the humanities, as in trying to live a life, what may turn out to matter most is holding one's nerve.”

“It was a good experience working with Roger Vadim and Jane Fonda.”

“I'd decided to write about stuff that I would like to hear standup about.”

“Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.”

“Nothing reaches the intellect before making its appearance in the senses.”

“I try to write very fast. I don't revise very much. I write the poem in one sitting. Just let it rip. It's usually over in twenty to forty minutes. I'll go back and tinker with a word or two...”

“'Bloodless' reminded me a bit of 'Les Miserables' when it first came out.”

“The world is to be carried forward by truth, which at first offends, which wins its way by degrees, which the many hate and would rejoice to crush.”

“College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life.”

“People want to see musicians sing things that come from their own mind and own heart in real time, responding to the moment for them.”

“The muse, the beloved, and duende are three ways of thinking of what is the source of poetry, and all three seem to me different names or different ways to think about something that is not...”

“Let those who will - write the nation's laws - if I can write its textbooks.”

“Breeze strolled over to the table and chose a seat with his characteristic decorum. The portly man raised his dueling cane, pointing it at Ham. 'I see that my period of intellectual respite...”

“I was happy, I wasn't beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasn't what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I don't know how my mother did it.”

“Although, I admit, I desire, Occasionally, some backtalk From the mute sky, I can't honestly complain: A certain minor light may still Lean incandescent Out of kitchen table or chair As if a...”

“Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.”

“Now that I'm being very successful, publishers are trying to mainstream me, but I'm unabashedly genre. It's what I like to read, what I like to write.”

“We need no fanciful teaching regarding the personality of God. What God desires us to know of Him is revealed in His word and His works. The beautiful things of nature reveal His character a...”

“I'm proud of my thighs because they've gotten me to where I am today and give me the power that I have to play my best.”

“Doubts in your mind are a much greater roadblock to success than obstacles on the journey.”

“Wonder Woman was my favorite superhero as a little girl. I still have a huge girl crush on Wonder Woman; I think she's amazing.”

“Davis Cup is a completely different animal.”

“The ways that my dogs can make me - and my visitors - happy constantly amazes me.”

“I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed wi...”

“Needless to say, jamming deformed, drugged, overstressed birds together in a filthy, waste-coated room is not very healthy. Beyond deformities, eye damage, blindness, bacterial infections of...”

“Ads featuring real women and real beauty are such a necessary component to offset the potentially dangerous programming out there for little girls.”

“From my time in 'King Crimson,' I'd describe a Progressive band as one that keeps trying to break musical barriers, and keeps trying to do new music.”

“If they're willing to stand at polls for countless hours in the rain, as many did, then I should surely stand up for them here in the halls of Congress.”

“Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.”

“The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.”

“Nothing substitutes for a great education.”

“I come from a little island with the Caribbean Sea on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. I come from, really, nowhere, and for me, the fiction and the nonfiction, creative or othe...”

“One of the greatest problems that we have as people is that we think too much, but we fail to take action; and it is at that point that fear takes over and makes its home within us.”

“Razor clams are large, oblong clams, although not as big as geoducks.”