Every accepted public quote

“I think being on a film set for such a long time made me a technical actor without realizing it.”

“The saddest word in the whole wide world is the word almost. He was almost in love. She was almost good for him. He almost stopped her. She almost waited. He almost lived. They almost made i...”

“We live in a country whose government and many of its people support white supremacy and disintegration of basic human rights.”

“I always had this idea that you should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thing as a happy ending. Do you know what I mean? There is so muc...”

“I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.”

“The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.”

“I'm not a religious person. My mom was of Jewish blood and my dad was Protestant.”

“To do more for the world than the world does for you - that is success.”

“Go With the Heart's Voice, Not With the World's Noise.”

“The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines.”

“When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it's two hours. That's relativity.”

“Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?”

“For he who lives more lives than one, more deaths than one must die.”

“From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me.”

“The toughest thing about being a housewife is you have no place to stay home from.”

“Happiness: the feeling of being alive.”

“Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me.”

“Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.”

“Luckily, I have two of the coolest parents around. They're so open about having any and all experiences, so they never hindered us in any way by categorizing or judging anything.”

“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

“Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.”

“I don't like crazy names. I don't like them. I don't think it makes any sense. You have to think about the child and, as they get older, what they have to deal with. A lot of people do thing...”

“And I didn't choose it, Kat. I chose you.”

“Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.”

“It's 4am again and I'm just getting started. People are boring and I want to burn with excitement or anger and bleed, bleed through my words. I want to get all fucked up and write real and r...”

“Hope is not about proving anything. It's about choosing to believe this one thing, that love is bigger than any grim, bleak shit anyone can throw at us.”

“Everywhere I go, the kids call me 'the book lady.' The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of the 'book lady' title. It makes me feel more like a legitimate person, not just a si...”

“For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?”

“There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.”

“Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however, and if you can do both things, then...”

“The ultimate goal of humanity is knowledge.”

“For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing t...”

“Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.”

“A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.”

“When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it is best to let him run.”

“The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real only that which exists within onese...”

“Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for,...”

“Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.”

“As you may possibly have noticed from time to time, I have tended to make a habit of sticking my head above the parapet and generally getting it shot off for pointing out what has always bee...”

“My highest aspiration is to Love without limits and without ego.”

“What you're really after when you see a film or listen to a song is a singular vision, and I'm not sure how much of that you really get in Hollywood.”

“I think to eat cake is very good for us, but it's the size of the slice and how often you have it.”

“O God, we praise Thee for keeping us till this day, and for the full assurance that Thou wilt never let us go.”

“I love being challenged, goofing off, and lots of passion.”

“Pulvis et umbra sumus. (We are but dust and shadow.)”

“silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.”

“Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far.”

“Whatever the reviewers feel about 'The Casual Vacancy', it is what I wanted it to be, and you can't say fairer than that as a writer.”