Every accepted public quote

“A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.”

“Let us not kid ourselves; let us remember that literature is of no use whatever, except in the very special case of somebody's wishing to become, of all things, a Professor of Literature.”

“I'm perfectly happy complaining, because it's cathartic, and I'm perfectly happy arguing with people on the Internet because arguing is my favourite pastime - not programming.”

“The world was not ready for their wisdom. Yet they achieved great things in the invisible universe and their impact would be understood later, in the fullness of time.”

“In theory, it is illegal to make the basement into a bureaucratic purgatory. In 1994, for instance, Congress prohibited agencies from making significant changes in a whistleblower's 'working...”

“I think I am, therefore, I am... I think.”

“Hope is a passion for the possible.”

“I'm a voyeur. I say that with no embarrassment. If I could have a superpower, being invisible would be it, no question. I'm fascinated by human behavior; observing people and seeing how much...”

“The chief characteristic of 'The Tribune' under Greeley was an aggressive and even ostentatious purity. 'Immoral and degrading police reports,' and any notices of the existence of the theate...”

“Two words. Three vowels. Four constenants. Seven letters. It can either cut you open to the core and leave you in ungodly pain or it can free your soul and lift a tremendous weight off you s...”

“I glory in the distinguishing grace of God and will not, by the grace of God, step one inch from my principles or think of adhering to the present fashionable sort of religion.”

“I think when you're a bigger star you get many good scripts sent to you, and you have to choose which one you're going to gravitate toward, but I just try to gravitate toward the best-writte...”

“A novel is a mirror walking along a main road.”

“I'm not really a fan of sleep, to be honest with you. I work out at 9:30 or 10 o'clock at night, and sometimes I just keep going. I've never been a big sleeper.”

“No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily.”

“At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious.”

“Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever; I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my si...”

“You are the TEACHER. Some people are so stuck on what you did in the past, that they don't realize that you forgave yourself, matured, and graduated from what happened. Yet here they are stu...”

“The saddest country I went to was Romania, years ago, during Ceausescu's rule.”

“We don't do things we aren't good at by nature. I wouldn't play basketball because I'm only 5' 1". Find what you enjoy - whether it's racing, flying a helicopter, being a doctor, or stitchin...”

“My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.”

“I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on.”

“Any fool can hope when success lies plainly in view. It wants genuine strength to hope when matters are hopeless.”

“The GFTUK is a powerful political instrument for training its members, including the working class, into Kimilsungists-Kimjongilists with unfailing loyalty to the Party and the leader and mo...”

“Time well spent adds to life well lived.”

“My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.”

“I love skating and sparkling and flying around the ice, and people clap for you. It's an amazing feeling.”

“I really am having the time of my life. But as far as my future goes, I want to stretch myself as an actor in a way that Jake Gyllenhaal, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Meryl Streep do.”

“In my own view, the life expectancy of Native Americans in the United States is one of the really great moral crises that we face.”

“One of the defining experiences of my life came in the mid-1980s. After working for two years as a geologist in Colorado, I lost my job and my career during that long recession.”

“I'm the cofounder of Keep a Child Alive. We provide medicine for families affected by HIV and AIDS in places like Africa and India.”

“Great leaders are not proverbial fence sitters. They judge. They opine. They challenge. They fight for their vision.”

“If I could do anything over, I'd have spent more time with my first set of children. I would have taken more quality time with them, for sure.”

“A fantasy novel set in something other than medieval Europe, featuring an almost entirely black cast, is considered risky.”

“Sometime in my 20s, a wise mentor said something that dramatically changed my outlook and that has stayed with me ever since. She told me to 'wear the mantle with dignity and pride.'”

“Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking.”

“I'm of the school of thought where, if you can't sort something out for yourself, no one can help you. Rehab is great for some people but not others.”

“Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroy...”

“Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.”

“When someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them.”

“I'd prefer no practices and just Saturday, Sunday. Just qualify Saturday morning, race Saturday afternoon, and race again Sunday. Less laps of nonsense and more laps of meaningful business.”

“The last time I ordered soup in a restaurant was - well, let me see - possibly never. That's because in my mind, soup is something to be made and eaten at home, ideally with a cuddly animal...”

“Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.”

“Love is a universal Heaven, ignorance is an individual Hell.”

“The sane are madder than we think, the mad saner.”

“Nobody kicks on being interrupted if it's by applause.”

“What I wanted to do was to look at the powerlessness that I felt as - and continue to feel at times - as a black man in the American streets. I know what it feels like to walk through the st...”

“Making tough decisions that may make someone unhappy is something to get good at doing.”