John Quotes

What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?

I wouldn’t have a career if it weren’t for independent bookstores.

Gratitude is the proper response for the absolute astonishment of getting to be alive, and aware, and an essential part of this crazy, sprawling story.

You may choose your song, but know this: Tiny. Cooper. Hates. Over. The. Rainbow.

I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really really liked him. I liked the way his story ended with someone else. I liked his voice. I liked that he took existentially-fraught free throws.

Stop thinking about the landing, because it's all about falling.

Life has become the future.

Only now that I loved a grenade did I understand the foolishness of trying to save others from my own impending fragmentation: I couldn’t unlove Augustus Waters. And I didn’t want to.

The darkest nights produce the brightest stars.

Rest if you must, but never quit.

Indifferentism about doctrine makes no heroes of the faith.

There's always such a rush to judgment. It makes a fair trial hard to get.

However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.

What a relief it was to discover that I wasnt realy an idiot! I simply had a learning disability.

Some people seem to be at peace-but in fact they're just resting up between fights.

The absence of strife does not necessarily indicate the presence of peace.

How can the Jews be blamed for rejecting what was never offered?

Cabbages, whose heads, tightly folded see and hear nothing of this world, dreaming only on the yellow and green magnificence that is hardening within them.

The thing about special teams - and I think football in general - is sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you.

Sometimes when a new piece of knowledge comes along you suddenly change your priorities and focus on something completely different instead.

You cannot work with men who won't work with you.

Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.

There are three species of creatures who when they seem coming are going, when they seem going they come: diplomats, women, and crabs.

When you find your opponent's weak spot, hammer it.

What happen to the pirates we are supposed to see? Then we go down the chutes, and it's where the pirates were. But they're all gone. There is nothing but skeletons down here!

Some of us say, "Lord knows how much I can bear". I think you can assume that you can bear more than you have a right to bear.

There are some long silences in Scandinavian and some Japanese films, when the audience knows action is taking place, but the audience hears no action.

Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude.

By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.

Before you try to convince anyone else, be sure you are convinced, and if you cannot convince yourself, drop the subject.

It is only those who do not know how to work that do not love it. To those who do, it is better than play.

All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the sacred writings.

The reality is that changes are coming... They must come. You must share in bringing them.

The writer must not invent. The legend on the license must read: NONE OF THIS WAS MADE UP.

There are none so blind as those who will not see. The most deluded people are those who choose to ignore what they already know.

She was my accountant, so I just believed her.

Young people are at risk of being disinherited from their community if that community lacks the courage and confidence to teach its history.

Every fool in error can find a passage of scripture to back him up

It's a great relief to feel that you're working with someone rather than for someone. You don't feel that you're being tested, as it were.

Anything which retains interest is optimistic. When the characters become disinterested, it's pessimistic. Does that make sense?

For sheer strength of character, I wouldn't have dared to cross swords with Callas. I would rather have gone six rounds with Jack Dempsey.

We are formed by what we desire

More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have a talent that's special. It strikes me that I have an unusual kind of stamina.

Kids are beautiful, man. And they know much more than grownups think they know. Kids are just perfect people until grownups get their hands on them.

There are always suicides among people who are unable to say what they mean.

Our memory is a monster; you forget it - it does not.

I love it when the dark bottle of night spills out, and the Moon writes in chalk about us.

Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased

In old time we had treen chalices and golden priests, but now we have treen priests and golden chalices.

Adam was placed in Paradise in perfect estate, and in the company of God's angels; God walked and did talk with him. He heard the voice, and beheld the presence of God.