D. T. Max Quotes

I like to think that at the end of a show, you can just take your costume off and go to the pub.

I think it's quite good to have an amount of unavailability.

The inversion of external compulsion into the compulsion of conscience ... produces the machine-like assiduity and pliable allegiance required by the new rationality.

Chaos is not dangerous until it begins to look orderly.

Bitterness is the trap that snares the hunter

The past does not have to be your prison. You have a voice in your destiny. You have a say in your life. You have a choice in the path you take.

Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge.

I live, like every real man, in my work.

The technologist was the final guise of the white missionary, industrialization the last gospel of a dying race and living standards a substitute for a purpose in living.

There are all sorts of ways of murdering a person or at least his soul, and that's something no police in the world can spot.

If you criticize what you’re doing too early you’ll never write the first line.

If the going is getting too easy, maybe you're going downhill!

The essence of Capablanca's greatness is his rare talent for avoiding all that can complicate or confuse the conflict.

The task of the strategist and leadership team is to reduce uncertainty in the areas that they can directly influence in order to pursue attractively difficult objectives.

As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind

Earning trust is not easy, nor is it cheap, nor does it happen quickly. Earning trust is hard and demanding work. Trust comes only with genuine effort, never with a lick and a promise.

A team of giants needs giant pitchers who throw good ideas but every pitcher needs an outstanding catcher. Without giant catchers, the ideas of the giant pitchers may eventually disappear.

The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers.

From a leader's perspective, the most serious betrayal has to do with thwarting human potential, with quenching the spirit, with failing to deal equitably with each other as human beings.

Use your head; cut off theirs.

A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.

One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.

No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.

Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with their own great themes.

The meaning of life is to create meaning for your life.

Most of my success, I feel, comes from being a good editor as opposed to a great writer.

Whatever bro, tell it to the whales

Science progresses not by convincing the adherents of old theories that they are wrong, but by allowing enough time to pass so that a new generation can arise unencumbered by the old errors.

The scent of flowers does not travel against the wind; but the odor of good people travels; even against the wind: a good man pervades every place.

It is pretty hard to find the right result to a controversial issue.

Hey man, can you talk to dolphins and pilot whales with that huge forehead of yours?

The administration's attempt to keep us from selling agricultural products to Cuba is an outrage. Cuba is not a threat. That is why we must do more to open Cuba - not less.

One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is.

Your serenity matters to heaven. God's presence encapsulates your life.

[...]you don’t have to be Sun freakin Tzu to know that real fighting isn’t about killing or even hurting the other guy, it’s about scaring him enough to call it a day.

The haters always scream the loudest.

You can be a bigot in the US, but you can't come out and openly declare your support for racial nationalism.

I haven't seen American Sniper, but correct me if I'm wrong: An occupier mows down faceless Iraqis but the real victim is his anguished soul.

I made the first Moebius strip without knowing what it was.

No one has probably helped me more with my narcissism than my dog.

Strange when you come to think of it, that of all countless folk who have lived on this planet, not one is known in history or in legend as having died of laughter.

In comics, the writer is also the director in a certain way. So if this were a film, you wouldn't tell the cinematographer to make a good fight scene while you go and get a cup of coffee.

Not far from our house, and opposite the old church with the golden cross, stood a large building, even larger than the church, and having many towers.

Science advances funeral by funeral

Giants. We must face them. Yet we need not face them alone.

The Senate is a remarkable institution. It is unique. There is no other body, no other political body, no other democratic legislature in the world quite like the U.S. Senate.

Yes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions, but everyone forgets the second half of that quote: the road to heaven is paved with good actions.