David Quotes

We can actually reconstruct our past by examining what we think, say, feel, expect, believe, and do in an intimate relationship now.

Synchronicity is a term used by Carl Jung to describe coincidences that are related by meaningfulness rather than by cause and effect.

Better Than You island doesn't exist. And if it does it's full of idiots, looking over their shoulder for the next idiot to arrive.

The wrong answers are stopping the right ones from emerging.

A politician's record is like a tin kettle to a dog's tale - it's a noisy appendage, wich makes the dog conspicuous and invites everybody to shy a brick at him.

Sometimes the best decisions in life are on the spur of the moment. So I generally try to do what I think is right. And sometimes I make mistakes.

I'm blessed by the fact I only need five hours of sleep on a daily basis. I do tend to regard Saturday and Sunday as work days.

I realised how rich I had become and I asked myself, 'Do I really want to be the richest person in the cemetery?

The problem facing a comprehender is analogous to the problem that a detective faces when trying to solve a crime. In both cases there is a set of clues.

Any company designed for success in the 20th century is doomed to failure in the 21st.

Animal research saves lives, but wherever possible alternatives should be used

I started when I was nine. Really, everything I know about color theory, composition, drawing, and painting, I learned when I was a kid.

In the end men love better that for which they have made sacrifices than that through which they have enjoyed pleasures.

Kindness is no common virtue. It is a rare gift.

If you're going to hold on tight to your life, better make sure it's exactly the way you want it

Our imagination often is more horrifying than being shown something.

There are certain pressures and things that change your life to a degree that, in the cost benefit analysis that constantly goes on, sometimes makes you think, 'Maybe I should just leave.

I don't think I responded very well to the sudden celebrity, the sudden fame, and the loss of privacy.

If you give yourself to your task at once, you won't have to do it twice.

Do I exaggerate? Boy, do I, and I'd do it more if I could get away with it.

Oh, for Christ's sake,' I hear. 'Can we please just try to have a good time?' This is like ordering someone to find you attractive, and it doesn't work. I've tried it.

I always think it's a good policy to like the people who like you.

It is funny the things that run through your mind when you're sitting in your underpants in front of a pair of strangers.

In other parts of the country people tried to stay together for the sake of the children. In New York they tried to work things out for the sake of the apartment.

Jeremy, Good luck on your first marriage.

I went from having 50 listeners to 50 million listeners.

I'm not a reporter but the 'New Yorker' treats everyone like a reporter.

I'd tried to straighten him out, but there's only so much you can do for a person who thinks Auschwitz is a brand of beer.

The drama bug strikes hardest with Jews, homosexuals and plump women who wear their hair in bangs. These are people who, for one reason or another, desperately crave attention

It's hard to love a place that's outlawed smoking but finds it perfectly acceptable to serve raw fish in a bath of chocolate.

Faced with an exciting question, science tended to provide the dullest possible answer. Ions might charge the air but they fell flat when it came to charging the imagination - my imagination, anyway.

If things continue like this, the history of our age may one day be written under a caliphate's supervision .

There is a lot of silence in watching somebody trying to remember things.

I always expose the apparatus. I show how the film was made. I acknowledge the filmmaker and the filmmaking.

I am becoming used to an overwhelming, grinding mixture of anger and worry.

Here's a note to the parents of addicted children: Choose your music carefully...There are millions of treacherous moments.

Liberating oneself from the addiction of consumerism and careerism promotes inner peace.

Intercession remains the unrivaled master in fulfilling the Great Commission.

The true goal of Christian unity is world evangelization.

I believe that we are the generation that will rise and fulfill the Great Commission. But if we don't; some generation will. God has decreed it!

Resolution and conclusion are inherent in a plot-driven narrative.

I take literature as a really serious human activity. It's not just a playful thing. It can be hilarious and wonderful and performative, but I think it's really serious.

In my own little way, I feel like I'm part of a group of writers who care deeply about pushing the essay forward.

You have to make changes before people are clamoring for changes. If people are asking for changes, it's too late.

You have to be driven by the stories that you want to tell. You can't simply be responding, or there won't be any real heart to those stories anymore.

I don't draw every day. I tend to draw intensely during certain periods of time. I draw to amuse myself on occasion, when I am bored and drawing is the only fun to be had.

Eventually, someone is going to pick up a brick.

If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as much a function of class and social control as it was of racism.

.... When you have no voice, you don't exist

I was an accidental actor. I was never formally trained.