P. O'Brien Quotes

It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race.

I know the mistake I am making. I see the exits in life.

Yesterday Michael Phelps set an all-time Olympic record for most medals. Phelps has so much gold on his chest he's been asked to join the cast of 'Jersey Shore.'

I've never wanted to play bank managers and real people particularly.

I picked out my Halloween costume. I’m going as 'Slutty Madeleine Albright.'

Texas Senator Ted Cruz said if elected president he would abolish the Department of Education. But not to worry. He promised to replace it with the less expensive Bureau of Book Learning.

Top Democrats have mixed feelings about Sen. Hillary Clinton running for president. Apparently, some Democrats don't like the idea, while others hate it.

Find a balance between one's responsibility as a white person to confront acts of racism and one's subconscious sense of power and privilege over people of color when reacting to the [racist] event.

The drug lord is on the run. His name is El Chapo. Donald Trump is in a Twitter feud with this Mexican drug lord. It's historic - the first time Americans have ever sided with a Mexican drug lord.

Dropkick Murphys, everybody! That's a band!

North Korea threatened to launch a missile at South Korea. North Korea backed down after South Korea threatened to launch a sequel to 'Gangnam Style.'

Donald Trump insisted yesterday that he is not racist, because one time an African-American won Apprentice. Because nothing says 'not racist' like making a black man run your errands.

No charm, no humor, no wit -- and a personality which can only be described as 'icky.' .

Sales of George Orwell's 1984 have skyrocketed. It's true. So the fallout from the (NSA spying) scandal is worse than we thought. It's forcing Americans to read.

I was lonelier than I should be, for a woman in love, or half in love.

Yet he saw that in all places there was originality, resulting from the human efforts at decoration and ingenious methods of survival.

That is the mystery about writing: it comes out of afflictions, out of the gouged times, when the heart is cut open.

Home was more about people than a place.

A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.

If the Holy Communion touched my teeth, I thought that was a mortal sin

I might be celibate, but I appreciate the wonder of the sacrament of marriage.

According to a new survey, 40 percent of adults in Mexico say they would move to the United States if they got a chance. The number would have been higher, but the other 60 percent already live here.

Imagination, like reality, has its limits.

President Clinton signed a $10 million deal to write a book by 2003. Isn't that amazing? Yes, and get this, not only that, President Bush signed a $10 million deal to read a book by 2003.

When you decide something's right, there's nothing that can stop you from doing it.

Writers are always anxious, always on the run--from the telephone, from responsibilities, from the distractions of the world.

Writing doesn’t get easier with experience. The more you know, the harder it is to write.

You can only look forward to a South Dakota winter if, as with childbirth, remodeling a house, or writing a novel, you're able to forget how bad it was the last time.

Imagination is a killer.

Al Gore announced he is finishing up a new book about global warming and the environment. Yeah, the first chapter talks about how you shouldn't chop down trees to make a book that no one will read.

Life is never all one thing. It bounces around. Certainly, my own life has.

The presence of danger has a way of making you feel fully awake.

There is nothing better than having a personal-best day, being in shape and pushing myself beyond my own limits.

There is always the threat of tomorrow's treachery, or next year's treachery, or the treachery implicit in all the tomorrows beyond that.

The problem with movies is that movies end and your life doesn't. This doesn't appear to cause any trouble, but it does cause confusion, which is almost as bad.

you're never more alive than when you're almost dead.

Donald Trump was seen for quite a long time as a punchline, the jokes about the excesses and the failures of the 1980s. And he had become, you know, a human shingle and a punchline.

Even then, at nine years old, I wanted to live inside her body. I wanted to melt into her bones - THAT kind of love.

Donald Trump became seen as a credible businessperson with a real track record, even though that was at odds with reality.

Judged by the dollars spent, gambling is now more popular in America than baseball, the movies, and Disneyland-combined.

... when he kissed her, she received the kiss without returning it, her eyes wide open, not afraid, not a virgin's eyes, just flat and uninvolved.

They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried.

Certain blood was being shed for uncertain reasons.

But in a story I can steal her soul.

You have to be able to be a good loser. You have to be okay knowing you're going to fail every day in something without getting mad and upset.

...precisely where the land touched water at high tide, where things came together but also separated.

There was the single abiding certainty that they would never be at a loss for things to carry.

Take pride in exactly what it is you do and remember it's okay to fail as long as you don't give up.

It wasn't a question of deceit. Just the opposite; he wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn so hot that you would feel exactly what he felt.

I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time.