Jay Asher Quotes

This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different.

In a true democracy is the cure for most of our social and political ills, but a few of them must remain to keep us going.

I might have to do the London Marathon. I like crowds, so that is why I like the big marathons.

It's very, very hard to affect culture. And you can get surprised thinking you're farther down the path of change than you really are because, frankly, most of us like the way things are.

There's nothing wrong with being a capitalistic society, but it's taken the place of faith.

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

I wouldn't say I'm a mummy's girl, but I have grown to have a tremendous appreciation of her as a woman. I was very much a daddy's girl.

I believe that what is really important is that God can speak to us. If we have the humility to approach him in prayer with the right attitude, he can speak to our intelligence directly.

You can be a good neighbor only if you have good neighbors.

The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.

Once the attacks occur, as we learned on Sept. 11, it is too late. It makes little sense to deprive ourselves of an important, and legal, means to detect and prevent terrorist attacks while we are still in the middle of a fight to the death with al Qaeda.

As a kid I had a crush on Sophia Loren and Raquel Welch.

If an alien race lands on the planet Earth tomorrow and asks me to prove I'm really here, what do I do? What do I give them? What do I tell them? What do I show them? I can't sing or dance. I can't paint. I've never built anything, and I've never contributed anything significant to the human race.

I like to do all things. I've been fortunate enough to be able to do a bunch of them at the same time.

Success makes you less intimidated by things.

I'm not about hair and makeup.

That was the reasoning behind learning to play bass, and then after that it was more like it was neat to play songs together - for me to play bass and for him to play guitar.

Surround yourself with people you can always learn something from. Always work with people that are better at their craft than you are.

There's a certain possessiveness of writers sometimes.