Every accepted public quote

“Vests are very flattering on every body type. The key is to make sure you get a vest that's soft in fabric.”

“If someone tells you that something is impossible and you believe them, you should probably not be a researcher.”

“Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.”

“Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.”

“I remember Nigel Martyn joking with me at Leeds, saying he was old enough to be my father, which he certainly was.”

“When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.”

“I'm very inquisitive. I love hanging around people who can teach me. I ask a lot of questions. And I'm very introspective and self-critical.”

“The choice is not between conducting the stem cell research or not conducting it. That is not the choice.”

“A place is not really a place without a bookstore.”

“I was one of those weirdos who, at six years old, was telling everybody that I wanted to be an actor. I saw my sister in a play and realized that I wanted to play make believe in front of pe...”

“I've just seen it all - I've seen the bird flu, I've seen the Asian economic meltdown, SARS, 9/11, economic cycles.”

“There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.”

“Growth in the Chinese automobile market has exceeded everyone's expectations.”

“It was the pure Language of the World. It required no explanation, just as the universe needs none as it travels through endless time. What the boy felt at that moment was that he was in the...”

“A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.”

“My legs are really long and that's cool apparently, but I'm totally klutzy. I mean, I'm like Bambi. I fall all over myself because I can't control my arms and my really long legs.”

“There are lessons within everything if you take the time to find them.”

“Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.”

“The wedding took place in Vermont, where they have legalized gay civil unions, and I married a woman.”

“I am a lover of truth, a worshiper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.”

“Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.”

“I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.”

“I come from a real working class background, and I didn't know anyone sophisticated - except I saw Edie Sedgewick once at the Art Museum in Philly. She had these black leotards and little bl...”

“In knockout football, it's one bad game and you're out.”

“I began skating when I was 3. It was during 2002, the year the Olympics were held in Salt Lake City.”

“'Johnny' was always a lone wolf when he got on stage. Him against the world, whereas suddenly, when I got into acting, people were relying on me.”

“How can our hearts not break? How can we hold our tears? How can we bear the pain of losing those loving children and their guardians, who were slain in Newtown, Conn.? Why can't we face the...”

“To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.”

“There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff - something like $10 million worth....”

“Any comic like myself owes everything he has to Lenny Bruce. He was the originator. The godfather of uncensored American stand-up is clearly Lenny Bruce.”

“The man who fails because he aims astray, or because he does not aim at all, is to be found everywhere.”

“I listen to Steely Dan. I really like Steely Dan.”

“The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.”

“I steal from every movie ever made.”

“While my parents both worked full-time, we still grappled with the scourge of working-class poverty. But my entrepreneurial mother used her research skills to consult. And, along with my dad...”

“In the Navy, you're around a lot of people from different parts of the country. They've got different accents, different upbringings. I learned to love country-western music.”

“Don may yawn at the idea, which he often does, but the great thing about Don, he has confidence in me and Mike and Ed and Leslie and Steve, that we're not going go out and do stories that wi...”

“The world can be very cruel.”

“Beginning with exercise, the best training program available for real results is circuit training.”

“The goal of all civilization, all religious thought, and all that sort of thing is simply to have a good time. But man gets so solemn over the process that he forgets the end.”

“It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.”

“I try not to match too much. You know, if there's a blue coat and a blue shirt and a blue tie, I try to stay away from that. I'd rather have a blue coat and a yellow shirt and a pink tie. I...”

“One of the most devastating experiences in human life is disillusionment.”

“Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.”

“We have a right to decide how we want our bodies to look and feel, but unfortunately we do not exercise these rights. Instead, we tend to drift along, victims of our own ignorance of the fac...”

“I would say that I bought the land under which Trump Tower sits while playing golf.”

“I'm from New York. You walk by, you bump somebody and they give you a look. There's always an attitude.”

“My principle of success is SSET. That is, S - Select, S - See, E - Expect, T - Take. Select what you want in your mind. See what you want in your mind. Expect to get anything you want in you...”