A.Z. Black Quotes

We are all shitty little snowflakes dancing in the universe.

I am angry that the Democrats don't have the ability to explain to Republicans that we should be able to feed people in this country, and that is not socialism.

The power of the world always works in circles.

I'm always looking for a fresh perspective because it's fun to tell stories that are original and new in some way.

Being a playwright is like the equivalent of doing a jigsaw puzzle that has 1,500 pieces, and it's a jigsaw of a blue sky. Not a cloud in sight.

Persistence is the key to solving most mysteries.

She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.

The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.

Valentine's Day: the holiday that reminds you that if you don't have a special someone, you're alone.

It may be that some little root of the sacred tree still lives. Nourish it then, that it may leaf and bloom and fill with singing birds.

Markets look a lot less efficient from the banks of the Hudsonthan the banks of the Charles.

Just because you don't know how to do stand-up doesn't mean you don't know how to put on a show.

I survive at the edge of friends circles.

Hunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night to find hunger standing at my bedside, staring at my gauntly.

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world.

Understanding a metaphor is like deciphering a code or unraveling a riddle.

No matter what we're trying to accomplish in life, or what career path we're trying to take, sometimes we get caught up and lose perspective on what's important in life.

Everyone of you has a health that is unique and totally different from everybody else. Completely! Because we... are all like snowflakes.

One of the things I like about doing science, the thing that is the most fun, is coming up with something that seems ridiculous when you first hear it but finally seems obvious when you're finished.

That's the funny thing about religion: it doesn't matter what you say, you're going to upset someone.

Stop Bullying. No one deserves to feel worthless.

No person can be punished for entertaining or professing religious beliefs or disbeliefs, for church attendance or non-attendance.

If you want to get an audience quiet, just say "abortion" and everybody shuts up and the tension in the room is spectacular.

I am for the First Amendment from the first word to the last. I believe it means what it says.

I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.

Loss of social standing is an ever-present threat for individuals whose social acceptance is based on behavioral traits rather than unconditional human value.

I don't chase after things, but I put forward the effort and know the rest of it is out of my hands.

Fine doesn't mean fine! The scale goes: great, good, okay, not okay, I hate you, fine.

Every time I use an app, part of my brain dies! We'll get to the point where we go to bed and wonder: 'Did I have a thought today?' You'll have to go to your 'Thought' app!

If the people of New Zealand want to be part of our world, I believe they should hop off their islands, and push 'em closer.

I'm a happy person but an angry citizen.

When a country wants television more than they want clean water, they've lost their grip.

I always have humour in my action movies. I think characters that make jokes under fire are more real. It somehow helps put you in their shoes.

I'm an aspiring writer. I hate that phrase. You're either a writer or you're not.

It's all about finding your voice in whatever your profession... it helps your confidence.

A long life or a short life are of equal importance to God.

Negative feedback effected amplifier performance significantly.

If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.

Time and space are finite in extent, but they don't have any boundary or edge. They would be like the surface of the earth, but with two more dimensions.

Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.

Who knew that the devil had a factory where he made millions of fossils, which his minions distributed throughout the earth, in order to confuse my tiny brain?

I can learn to live with guilt. I don't care about being good.

If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re ready’.

I want you to give all these chiefs of the soldiers here to understand that we are for peace, and that we have made peace, that we may not be mistaken by them for enemies.

Changing is what people do when they have no options left.

Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.

Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.

The government continues to erode our freedom.

If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.