David Quotes

I want people to surprise themselves. Instead of saying "Oh, god, didn't we already do this 17 times?"

I like the idea of R-rated franchises.

An ad that pretends to be art is – at absolute best – like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you.

Truly decent, innocent people can be taxing to be around.

I had kind of a midlife crisis at twenty which probably doesn’t augur well for my longevity

Every love story is a ghost story.

My worst character flaw that I'm conscious of is that I tend to think my way into circles instead of resolving anything. It's paralyzing and boring for people around me.

I don't want to hurt myself. I want to stop hurting.

...Genuine pathological openness is about as seductive as Tourette's Syndrome.

I think it's easy to stop smoking; it's just hard not to commit a felony after you stop.

To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people.

For me, boviscopophobia is an even stronger motive than semi-agoraphobia for staying on the ship when we're in port.

I wish you way more than luck.

Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it.

It is tragic and sad and chaotic and lovely. All life is the same, as citizens of the human State: the animating limits are within, to be killed and mourned, over and over again.

In fact, the likeliest reason why so many of us care so little about politics is that modern politicians makes us sad, hurt us deep down in ways that are hard even to name, much less talk about.

Most really pretty girls have pretty ugly feet, and so does Mindy Metalman, Lenore notices, all of a sudden.

I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear

I cannot say what color Lenore Beadsman’s eyes are; I cannot look at them; they are the sun to me.

Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.

It's all very confusing. I think I'm very honest and candid, but I'm also proud of how honest and candid I am -- so where does that put me?

Footnote: 79) The anchor is gigantic and must weigh a hundred tons, and -- delightfully -- it really is anchor-shaped, i.e. the same shape as anchors in tattoos.

Nothing brings you together like a common enemy.

We've all been wrong- I certainly have- and we should thank those who set us right. Not always fun, but always best in the end.

Journalism can go right up to the door of the room in which the decisions are made. A novel can go inside the room - and inside the character's heads.

In journalism I can only tell what happened. In fiction, I can show it.

If we say something often enough, we come to believe it. We don't usually delude others until after we have first deluded ourselves.

Nobody ever won an election by spitting at his political opponents.

We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.

Your socks should match your tie

Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism.

A bad guy always assumes he's going to win, whereas the good guy has to struggle with, what if I lose?, and the audience wants to struggle with him.

Woke the next day and found her note. Love ya, goodbye, that's all she wrote.

Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money.

If this is the information age, what are we so well-informed about?

The book is a form in which some of the greatest masterpieces that mankind has ever achieved are expressed.

We all have scars [...] Better by far for them to be worn on the outside.

[H]e who fears to lose will never win.

Too many people go through life without pausing to enjoy what they have.

There are times, Sember, when I could believe your mother had a secret lover. Looking at you makes me wonder if it was one of my goats.

Most wars are fought for greed, but we are luckier here we fight for our lives and the lives of the people we love.

If you look at any ancient civilization, they've all used fantasy stories to train the young.

All men have talents. Some build, some paint, some write, some fight. For me it is different.

This world has few redeeming features, and one is the capacity for people to love one another with great, enduring passion.

By nature of definition only the coward is capable of the highest heroism

Most of the heroes we remember we remember only because they won. To win you must be ruthless. Single-minded ... which was why he had no friends just admirers.

We know from past history that when young people vote for one party a couple of times, they tend to vote for that party during their adult lifetimes in disproportionate numbers.

The human race never solves any of its problems, it only outlives them.

Study what you love, and youll never have to work a day in your life. Itll be one great adventure.

Contentment is the continuing act of accepting the process of your own life.