D. T. Max Quotes

Let your failures refine you, not define you.

No person [should] walk out into the world to begin the day until he or she has stood beneath the cross to receive God’s love.

I started writing because it was about making my friends laugh, and when you're talking to your friends, you can't bullshit.

[H]istory is a melodrama on the theme of parasitism, characterized by scenes that are exciting or dull, as the case may be, and many a sudden stagetrick.

You are a child of the universe.

I could never kill myself. What if it doesn't work. Then I'll have failed at the only thing that could save me from my failures. Where do you go from there?

Admiration involves a glorious obliquity of vision.

The process of art-making is full of happy accidents - what fun!

It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.

Be a child again. Flirt. Giggle. Dip your cookies in your milk. Take a nap. Say you're sorry if you hurt someone. Chase a butterfly. Be a child again.

God's present is his presence. His greatest gift is himself.

Yinzer: DAMN!! I wish I had your balls! Tucker:"I wish you had a breath mint, but I guess we don't always get what we wish for.

There will be no Palestinian state

The dignity of man is in free choice.

We had become those guys... who started a fight... at a Harry Potter book party.

I am a Tory anarchist. I should like everyone to go about doing just as he pleased - short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed.

We act like God's only good when the outcome is good. We say, 'We've got a good God because I've got a good job.' But what if I don't have a good job? Does that mean God's not good anymore?

No doubt metaphors are dangerous- and perhaps especially so in philosophy. But a prohibition against their use would be a willful and harmful restriction upon our powers of inquiry.

...a metaphor that works in one society may seem preposterous in another.

It's healthy for a band to become slightly less relevant

The only thing that someone could say about me that would hurt me would be something that's true that I don't want to be.

Art has got nothing to do with taste.

The evil-doer mourns in the next; he mourns in both. He mourns and suffers when he sees the evil of his own work.

Discover this mystery: as you help others face their days, you put life into your own. And life is exactly what many people need.

You can't make the incomprehensible comprehensible without losing it completely

It is always the moralists who do the most harm. Abortion is the logical outcome of civilization, only the jungle gives birth and moulders away as nature decrees. Man plans.

But to die of laughter--this, too, seems to me a great euthanasia.

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.

Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.

A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.

There's nothing like New Orleans. When it comes back, it will be a tremendous highlight for America.

Find something you love to do and then do it for the rest of your life

The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art.

That deed is not well done of which a man must repent, and the reward of which he receives crying and with a tearful face.

The '60s were an amazing time.

I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.

Everyone needs help. That's the human condition.

To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.

If you don't have a job right now, and you have a computer and a basic intelligence level, I guarantee you can get a great job, paying really well, in less than three months. How? Learn to program.

A few songs with Him might change the way you sing. Forever.

Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.

I love coffee. It's one of my favorite things in the world, and I love tasting different coffees.

Give a man religion without reminding him of his filth, and the result will be arrogance in a three- piece suit.

To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.

More and more countries of the world have decided that corporations do a better job of generating and deploying capital than do states.

Baptism is bowing before the Father and letting him do his work.

Because of Bethlehem, I have a friend in heaven.

Discouragement is contagious and is easily transmitted to others.

The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing for it.

It's up to me to promote my faith and somebody else to promote theirs. Let the government just protect our right to do so.