Every accepted public quote

“Become a worry-slapper. Treat frets like mosquitoes. Do you procrastinate when a bloodsucking bug lights on your skin? 'I'll take care of it in a moment.' Of course you don't! You give the c...”

“Cameroon can win the World Cup. People think I am crazy when I say this, but if you believe you have the best team in the world, you are stronger.”

“Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.”

“I just think if you don't say the honest thing, sometimes the honest thing never becomes true, you know, and I-”

“Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.”

“Those who obtain an eminent position, shall acquire critics, resentment, wrath and isolation; choose your friends for who they are, instead of who you are.”

“I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.”

“If I went to somewhere busy, I wouldn't last very long. I can't go to a museum - I'll last 10 or 15 minutes in a museum. The problem is that when one person asks for a photograph, then someo...”

“Sometimes you hold on to what's left, Sometimes you let go to start afresh.”

“Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.”

“Egos turn me off, big time.”

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.”

“When you're in the position I'm in, you have two options: you can either shut yourself off from everybody, from the world, and not live a full life. Or you welcome everybody into your life a...”

“To love the one who loves you, To admire the one who admires you, In a word, to be the idol of one's idol, Is exceeding the limit of human joy; It is stealing fire from heaven.”

“Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made.”

“It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.”

“I lay there in the bath not thinking, not doing anything. After a few seconds, I heard her open the front door, and then her voice saying: she's had a really rough day, so just be nice to he...”

“It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.”

“Nearly everyone says New York is their number one city in the world, don't they? It certainly is mine. But I feel like the ship sailed for me in terms of living in New York because I think y...”

“The final reward of the dead - to die no more”

“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.”

“If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”

“I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases.....”

“I want to start a Dunkin' Donuts in Los Angeles. I already have the perfect location picked out. It would be the old Tower Records buildings on Sunset.”

“Negativity is fear made visible.”

“I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians.”

“Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.”

“I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have...”

“speak quietly to yourself & promise there will be better days. whisper gently to yourself and provide assurance that you really are extending your best effort. console your bruised and tende...”

“The whole of the 20th century has always put the car at the center. So by putting the pedestrian first, you create these livable places, I think, with more attraction and interest and charac...”

“May these vows and this marriage be blessed.”

“Having children truly ends adolescence. We are all either parents or children: responsibility-takers or those who demand from others.”

“I like working-class people, generally speaking.”

“Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like yon cloud upon the mountain's summit; but, like the mountain itself, the things which are of God shall stand fast for ever and...”

“When it comes to culture, I'm sort of like Nostradamus if he'd been a handsome, witty minor celebrity with a great head of hair instead of a crusty old dude from the olden days.”

“Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.”

“I wasn't the guy running out to the Viper Room or comedy clubs until three in the morning. I was the guy running back to watch the Mets win the World Series in 1986.”

“If I could wear any label forever it would be Burberry. It covers a huge span of stuff. You can't go wrong with a classic trench and a pair of jeans.”

“Letting him go There is a particular kind of suffering to be experienced when you love something greater than yourself. A tender sacrifice. Like the pained silence felt in the lost song of a...”

“We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.”

“She said it out loud, the words distributed into a room that was full of cold air and books. Books everywhere! Each wall was armed with overcrowded yet immaculate shelving. It was barely pos...”

“The three most powerful and most apparent means used by Rome to retain her power over the minds of her votaries are Ignorance, Superstition, and Persecution.”

“Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his sons the hardships that made him rich.”

“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”

“Creativity is what helps me escape a lot of my inner demons.”

“In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.”

“You would be astonished to see that your greatest power lies in the very part of you you've been trying so hard to run away from.”

“And he knew, also, what the old man was thinking as his tears flowed, and he, Rieux, thought it too: that a loveless world is a dead world, and always there comes an hour when one is weary o...”