Every accepted public quote

“The end of 'Hollow City' left the peculiar children in a very precarious spot, and that's just where 'Library of Souls' begins.”

“Steve McQueen is my style hero. He's just cool, isn't he?”

“We always Face many Options in Life but we Keen to choose the ones the will Hurt us the most”

“Very different from eros is philia, a serene love much more akin to friendship, with its reciprocal kindnesses. You love each other for the happy experiences and pleasures you share.”

“I'm just asking for a fair shake. You see a lot of these guys, a lot of these other champions making what they're making. I'm not trying to take anything away from them, but I feel like I'm...”

“There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea.”

“When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.”

“If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!”

“I always have issues with trust. I'm a New Yorker... Really, I think trust is something that comes from the gut. And I think you have to - it's probably the worst advice to give people - but...”

“When I started to work in Hollywood at a fairly low level delivering scripts around town, listening to AM talk radio, I at first listened to it as a novelty.”

“My high school class was the first one to know, during the college recruiting process, to know there was the option to play professional basketball, to know that the WNBA was there, and to k...”

“I don't like downtime, and I just am too insecure that I'll not work again if I don't start the ball rolling on the next round of things. Everything takes so long to make and come to fruitio...”

“You have to be looking for a job to get unemployment benefits. If you stop looking for work, you are no longer eligible to receive benefits.”

“I eat a light but sustaining dinner before the show: a bunch of greens and some non-gluten quinoa or rice. I'll have a snack at intermission. I'm trying so hard not to have meals after the s...”

“I really thank my parents for giving me the good sense to not get into anything wrong. There are many people around who like controversies, and I actually wonder how do they do it. I don't h...”

“I lived a really wonderful life with this man and even after our divorce, it was incredible.”

“I had never really acted before, so I really didn't know what I was doing. The casting director for 'Euphoria' set me up with an acting coach in New York, and he completely flipped my world...”

“I watched a little girl cover her face up and leave her hands in front of her mouth. I saw that girl after surgery, and she was smiling... that's a great source of satisfaction.”

“The polls and the pundits and the media seem to talk to each other. It's sort of like an echo chamber.”

“I always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home.”

“Ever since I was a kid, I had been a Liverpool fan - they were my favourite Premier League club.”

“I don't think about Norfolk as I write songs, sadly no! But things like 'High' is a song about watching the dawn come up over the sea, and I've had many of those situations.”

“Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centerin...”

“Nobody ever heard Jack Nicklaus say 'I don't know' about anything.”

“The BRIT awards is a really great occasion, especially for us Brits, because it shows the talent and support coming from our country.”

“Writing is like sausage making in my view; you'll all be happier in the end if you just eat the final product without knowing what's gone into it.”

“Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it's painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it's extremely painful.”

“I have given my word that only death will take me from you.”

“When you grow up in the church, the only translation in that insular world that people understand is preaching. You're supposed to be a minister. So I was going down that path, and then I sa...”

“All nature wears one universal grin.”

“The Capitol Police have a very tough job.”

“We don't have to settle for Freedom Caucus tactics - those guys are tyrants. We don't have to accept that. In fact, we can't and have this country be what this country really can be.”

“When you have fans who are hassling you the entire game and you ignore them, they respect you because their job is to try and distract you. And if they don't distract you, that means you're...”

“Should I tell you one thing, I am blind from my right eye. I see only from my left eye. The one you see is someone else's eye which was donated to me after his death. If I close my left eye,...”

“The more you feed your mind with positive thoughts, the more you can attract great things into your life.”

“Success comes to those who hustle wisely.”

“Since words elude me when I need them most, I learned long ago that I cannot count on QUALITY time with God when I want to pray. I need QUANTITY and regularity. Quality is not something I ca...”

“The more people they can give us upfront the harder we play.”

“I first visited the Philippines when I was 29. I thought I would feel at home there, but I felt more out of place than I did in the U.S. I discovered I was more American than Filipino. It wa...”

“Let a nation's fervent thanks make some amends for the toils and sufferings of those who survive.”

“Liars hate silence, so they often try to fill it up by talking more than they need to. They provide far more information than was needed or asked for.”

“The women who file for bankruptcy played by all the rules, but they are still in economic freefall.”

“Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.”

“I prefer sayings over jokes.”

“Transcendental meditation in particular is very useful in terms of unlocking those deeper parts of the subconscious where ideas are floating.”

“Globalization and deindustrialization affected workers of all colors but hit African Americans particularly hard.”

“Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.”

“Don't try to teach a pig to sing. It doesn't work, and it annoys the pig.”