Every accepted public quote

“Never before had I felt trapped, so seduced and caught up in a story,' Clara explained, 'the way I did with that book. Until then, reading was just a duty, a sort of fine one had to pay teac...”

“Pain is such a useful thing. It corrects us when we're wrong. It shapes our character. It teaches us that we're alive.”

“You are always a little bit wrong”

“I really wanted to buy a Range Rover. It was a big dream, and the day I bought it, I was very happy, but by evening, I was immune to it. That's when I realized that excitement, if it's happi...”

“Holey? You have the the whole world of ear-related humor before you, you go for holey?”

“I believe it is the mark of a great leader to question the decisions that came before him.”

“I had kissed my share of men, particularly during the war years, when flirtation and instant romance were the light-minded companions of death and uncertainty. Jamie, thought, was something...”

“some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.”

“I don't care if the New York Times writes an obituary for me. I just want you to write one. ... You say you're not special because the world doesn't know about you, but that's an insult to m...”

“Sometimes it is good to be in uncomfortable situations because it is in finding our way out of such difficulties that we learn valuable lessons.”

“Screenwriting is an anthropological dig.”

“"Beautiful people are not always good, but good people are always beautiful."”

“Perhaps the only thing worse than learning a secret is being kept from you is knowing you aren't the type to let it go.”

“We shall not flag or fail. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island...”

“When I get into trouble at school I'd like to take an invisibility cloak, drape it over me and sneak out the door. Or I'd like to have a 3 headed-dog because then no one would argue with me.”

“If I catch one of my fans saying something improper, a gay slur or any derogatory term, I instantly tweet directly at them and say, 'This isn't how we do it.'”

“For I think belief in God is not a matter of reason at all; I think it finally is a matter of love.”

“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.”

“With faith, you may get stuck in a very big lie and may lose the truth forever; but with doubt, you can always reach the truth!”

“It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.”

“Artists - musicians, painters, writers, poets - always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perceptio...”

“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”

“The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean- Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition.”

“No matter where I am, this moment is my eternal home. No matter what I do, stillness is my only act. Now when I look at the universe - I see myself, And when I look at myself - I see the uni...”

“Love changes what is probable and makes unlikely things possible.”

“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”

“There are few nicer things than sitting up in bed, drinking strong tea, and reading.”

“I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.”

“She noted, more than once, that the meteor shower was happening, beyond the overcast sky, even if we could not see it. Who cares if she can kiss? She can see through the clouds.”

“We do pray for mercy, and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy.”

“Our spiritual history is the history of God-ventriloquists! The truth is that the voice of God is the voice of cunning Man, the ventriloquist's voice!”

“If evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve.”

“Far too many people opened their hearts and lives at the drop of a hat. Why give someone that power over you? Why endow them with the ability to hurt you that much? Let someone in and you we...”

“I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight t...”

“If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it, and you won't like it. That's how I operate.”

“Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.”

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”

“My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy.”

“Marvel Comics has always been a place where I felt at home. It has been a very important part of my life and has always been a wellspring of creative and relevant ideas.”

“The common ways of 'dealing with problems' are escapism and indulgence. Rare of us realize that inside issues can never be fixed on the outside.”

“The rule is jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.”

“Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders.”

“Time. I would have gone somewhere to buy time.”

“When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have a few ... if you are lucky.”

“Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.”

“Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny.”

“The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new fo...”

“I think a lot of moral debates are not over what is the basis of justice, but who gets a ticket to play in the game.”