Every accepted public quote

“I'm not going to pretend that I never fantasized about winning the Hugo. Or the Nebula, for that matter. I just never thought it was an actual real possibility.”

“I'm a little bit damaged in about 15 different ways, and it's been nice that no particular damaged area has become a major issue. I'm a more than moderately healthy 65-year-old male who has...”

“I can hear the moths crackling and burning on the bulb, I see myself as one of them, flitting around this porch light. I can imagine me bewitched by the wink and sparkle, but I couldn't imag...”

“During an open water swim, it's easy to lose your direction. With all the splash, it can be quite hard to see the next buoy, so I look behind it for something bigger, like a tree or a buildi...”

“It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.”

“I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highness...”

“As in all TV shows, and especially a show called 'Mistresses,' all is not going to be as it seems.”

“The evolutionary notion of survival of the fittest is embraced everywhere except in the arena of ideas, where every notion, no matter its sensibility, is considered as equally valid as all o...”

“God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.”

“Those who store, package, and sell the food we serve our families have a responsibility to maintain basic standards of cleanliness in their facilities.”

“The Supreme Court ruled that disabled golfer Casey Martin has a legal right to ride in a golf cart between shots at PGA Tour events. Man, the next thing you know, they're going to have some...”

“I first heard of Ulver reading the 'Lords of Chaos' book.”

“I was a bit of a mother hen at Studio 54.”

“I always say a lot of fake friends are the ones I can't get into a fight with, because if I get into a fight with them, it's over.”

“New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere.”

“A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension. It is a comparison that helps us understand, by analogy, some aspect of our mysterious selves. A myth, in this way of thinki...”

“The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute to that.”

“Evil is not good's absence but gravity's everlasting bedrock and its fatal chains inert, violent, the suffrage of our days.”

“Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.”

“I feel like most actors just dig and dig and work and work in whatever way they do to try to do as much as they can to portray a character in the limited time they have to play it, whether i...”

“I'm not trying to do conceptual art.”

“The word 'aerobics' came about when the gym instructors got together and said: If we're going to charge $10 an hour, we can't call it Jumping up and down.”

“There's straight people, and there's super gay people, and then there's everybody in between, and everybody is a little bit of something because sexuality is fluid.”

“Unlike the classical Greeks, for whom the fruit symbolized the inescapable cycle of bitter death, with a remorseful Persephone returning to the underworld for her six months of required wint...”

“Scientists and supercomputers have amplified our ability to look ahead. For decades, experts have warned us that human numbers, technology, hyper-consumption and a global economy are alterin...”

“I'm not a one-man show. I was never that in my life, and I never want to be that.”

“If you try to multitask in the classic sense of doing two things at once, what you end up doing is quasi-tasking. It's like being with children. You have to give it your full attention for h...”

“People ask me, 'What do you do?' And I tell them I'm a writer, but always with the silent reservation, 'I am, of course, not really a writer. Hemingway was a writer.'”

“One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea.”

“You make a movie, and if somebody reads something into it, then great, more power to him.”

“I was born in and worked in a period that could be called enviable.”

“If I could film, we'd film every episode of 'Doctor Who' in New York. I have an affinity with the city. It has some wonderful locations and it is devastatingly vast and huge. Central Park lo...”

“My family and I built my whole career from scratch.”

“The passion for truth is silenced by answers which have the weight of undisputed authority.”

“Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.”

“All I'm saying is, love changes over time. No person is ever perfect for another person”

“For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.”

“I try not to have too many rituals because I believe that rituals don't help you win. I used to do rituals a lot and it was crazy.”

“Most Americans live on a diet that includes processed fare that is neither fresh nor natural.”

“He never believed in miracles until he met her.”

“Managing your own property can be a full-time job.”

“I think Chris Brown gets kind of dismissed as a gay writer, and I think Chris's books are really, really smart. I wish his books sold a little more widely.”

“Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.”

“O temporal O mores! O what times! what morals!”

“I was doing the 'Vogue' fashion awards when I was 16, live on VH1. I was coming down the steps, and I'm a really hard walker. I hadn't had a mistake yet in my career. Everything had been per...”

“I knew I had to show everybody that I could excel at something. But I didn't know what.”

“Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.”

“No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.”