Doe Quotes - Page 367

To love a fool is a misfortune, but does not make one a fool.

Sexual attraction pairs people, but does not match them.

Hatred observes with more care than love does.

The ninety percent of human experience that does not fit into established narrative patterns falls into oblivion.

Regretting the past does not prevent me from repeating it.

The power of the past does not depend on our knowledge of it.

I do have faith. I don't have faith that a God exists, nor do I have faith that one does not; I have absolute faith that I do not know, cannot know, am only human, am an infinitesimal creature packed onto a cramped planet crowded with seven billion bodies, and as many yearning hearts, and as many questioning minds.

Of course risk-taking does not always pay off, but it's a lot of fun!

There’s plenty that poetry cannot do. But the miracle, of course, is how much it can do, how much it does do.

Are you a polititcian or does lyin' just run in your family?

There’s a difference between being alone and being lonely. Writers know that. I have never met a writer who does not crave to be alone. We have to be alone to do what we do.

There are some parts of the business world, in my judgment, that are actually trying to ensure that the U.S. does not take on board the preponderance of arguments for global warming, and that is something I am really very concerned about.

In my whole life, I've never vomited from seeing something disgusting. Does it really even happen, outside of movies and TV? I believe it may be a myth.

I very much was inspired by Bill Bryson. He does cover science, but more often, it's a mixture of science and travel, and whatever he happens to be writing about - Shakespeare, Australia, the United Kingdom, or when he covers science in 'A Short History Of Nearly Everything' - he has an incredible ability to be both entertaining and enlightening.

I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be.

Grumbling, as things are at present arranged in this world, does not always, nor I might say often, do good.

You don't have to be crazy to be a writer, but it certainly does help

I care about me now. When I didn't care about me, I was, like, 'Why is this going wrong? Why is my life so bad?' But when you don't care about yourself, nobody else is going to care about you. So I learned to love myself, even if nobody else does.

I grew up interested in the underside of Hollywood, which I think David Lynch does really well.

Of course there are exceptional circumstances, and there is exceptional talent; but, unhappily, exceptional talent does not always win its reward unless favoured by exceptional circumstances.

Every artist who evolves a style does so from illusive elements that inhabit his or her visual storehouse.

... education fails in so far as it does not stir in students a sharp awareness of their obligations to society and furnish at least a few guideposts pointing toward the implementation of these obligations.

Sometimes it just seems that love is not enough, does it?

Love, I have discovered, does not judge. It just is.

Nothing ought to be told, I think that does not interest or kindle one's own mind in looking back; it is the only condition on which one can hope to interest or kindle other minds.