David Quotes

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... life is a flickering candle we all carry around. A gust of wind, a meaningless accident, a microsecond of carelessness, and it's out. Forever.

One's ribs shouldn't be prison bars.

My lines all curve. I tend to connect the wrong dots.

I was just struggling with my inner vachette and pondering the depths of my own inhumanity.

One of the more gratifying things about guilt is that it makes us feel important.

End-stage addiction is mostly about waiting for the police, or someone, to come and bury you in your shame.

Physicality is the basis of performance.

Time flies when you’re being stupid.

The dead are often known to eat 27 and 53

This appetite to choose death by pleasure if it is available to choose - this appetite of your people unable to choose appetites, this is the death.

Each one of us is left to choose our own quality of life and take pleasure where we find it with the understanding that, like Mom used to say, sooner or later something's gonna get you.

You see, time is an ocean, not a garden hose. Space is a puff of smoke, a wisp of cloud.

Scream at the mangled leather carcass lying at the foot of the stairs, and my parents would roar with laughter. "That's what you get for leaving your wallet on the kitchen table.

I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.

Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists.

There is no such thing as an evil genius, as evil in it's self is stupidity.

Pink is female - but why? Are girls any more pink than boys? Are boys any more blue than girls? It's something that has been sold to us, mostly so other things can be sold to us.

Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right.

It was the most amazing feeling in the world. to know that something right happened, and to know that it had happened not through luck or command but simply because it was right.

It felt good to be surrounded by books, by all this solid knowledge, by these objects that could be ripped page by page but couldn't be torn if the pages all held together.

Long live protest songs, in whatever form they take.

Social media is addictive precisely because it gives us something which the real world lacks: it gives us immediacy, direction, a sense of clarity and value as an individual.

Social media is the empowerment of the individual at the expense of the system.

The marriage bond is more than a civil contract. It is a reward for loving well.

He's as nutty as a vegan T-bone.

I say good-bye to hope, but I also say good-bye to hope's disappointment.

What, after all, is mathematics but the poetry of the mind, and what is poetry but the mathematics of the heart?

Behavior is the outcome of the battle among internal systems.

If losers can exploit what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long term.

There will always be trouble so there will always be a time for heroes

A man. A dead man. A dead man with no arms.

Let’s always love each other, and never be in love with each other.

Put. That coffee. Down. Coffee's for closers only.

She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman.

Leaves turned to soil beneath my feet. Thus it is, trees eat themselves.

Every novel is an attempt to capture time, to weave something solid out of air. The author knows it is an impossible task - that is why he keeps on trying.

It is no longer clear which way is up even if one wants to rise.

To bracket form and finality out of one's investigations as far as reason allows is a matter of method, but to deny their reality altogether is a matter of metaphysics.

[He] didn’t like to think of himself as vain, but there were definitely times when he wished there was someone on hand to take his photograph.

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

You walk into the playgrounds in Shanghai and Beijing, and you see youngsters who are shorter, shaking and baking and having attitude. And Jeremy Lin is going to inspire all of them.

If you don't respect me you're not gonna get that respect back.

Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you are not treating them with respect, the viewers are.

If you look at a building by Mies van der Rohe, it might look very simple, but up close, the sheer quality of construction, materials and thought are inspirational.

The humor section is the last place an author wants to be. They put your stuff next to collections of Cathy cartoons.

Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.

When I look at a lot of older stuff that I've written, I think one sign of amateur humor writing is when you see people trying too hard.

As I get older, my sense of humor is my biggest asset.

Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens.