A.Z.Green Quotes

I am fond of saying that reading the Bible turned me into an atheist.

If I'm too old to be Emo, how do you account for the very Emo and very old Edgar Allan Poe? Checkmate!

Even in the business of corporations honesty is the best policy, and the companies that have acted in accordance with the highest standard, other things being equal, have reaped the richest harvest.

...whatever you're worried about, you're bigger than the worries.

And, since they are theater people, they are all talking. All of them. Simultaneously. They do not need to be heard; they only need to be speaking.

It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.

You may be wondering why there are words on my hands. That's because I'm a dork. And I'm gonna choose not to explain myself.

He loves his country best who strives to make it best.

Because you are beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence

Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy a coffin.

I don't believe in prom,' I reminded her as she rounded a corner. I expertly angled my raisin bran to accomodate the g-forces. I'd done this before.

With soap, baptism is a good thing.

How do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by yourself forever and not meaning anything to the world?

Focusing on one thing without interruption is how you get meaningful work done.

Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.

She was up and down—from fire and brimstone to smoke and ashes.

If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

I was born into Bolívar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps.

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

Just move to the Internet, its great here. We get to live inside where the weather is always awesome.

depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.

Night falls fast. Today is in the past.

They say what doesn't kill the soul will make you stronger, but you can't be a stone-hearted man.

I am not so much for the freedom of religion as I am for the religion of freedom.

Nothing could be more dangerous to the existence of this Republic than to introduce religion into politics

I can tell a good cowboy by the way he approaches a cow.

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.

Legacy media accuses young people of being apathetic while actively attempting to remove them from the discussion.

Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.

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.

We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.

Think of people as people, not problems that need to be solved.

Whenever I have faced a setback I have dusted myself down and got on with the rest of my life because I believed in myself.

If the money is raised by taxation, then the burden will fall where it ought to fall, . . . and the rich and stingy will no longer be able to evade the duties of citizenship and of humanity.

Christ is risen from the dead!

Hear the bells ringing they're singing "Christ is risen from the dead!" The angel up on the tombstone said, He is risen just as he said!

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

The only good hero is the kind who survives to talk about merchandising.

I would love to play an unexpected character. Really raw and simple and not a cliche - something rugged. People like to put actors in boxes.

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

Life's too short to wear high heels.

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.

The worst is when men try too hard, because it's not very masculine. Your outfit has to look like 'Oh, I just grabbed that.' Not too calculated. Jeans, a t-shirt: the simpler the better.

I've been such an oddball my whole life, but I've always been cool and I've always dressed fairly smartly.

The darkest nights produce the brightest stars.

I think real true success is when, yes, you have reached the goal, reached yours, but it's how many others you have helped along the way.