William Safire Quotes

I think if everyone looked the same, it would be a bit boring.

No one is any one thing.

The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.

When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.

I am 32 flavors and then some.

No two of our stores are the same.

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

We all have so many different elements inside of us and we're not all one thing.

I have a different idea of a universal. It is of a universal rich with all that is particular, rich with all the particulars there are, the deepening of each particular, the coexistence of them all.

I'm a lot of things at once. I want my audience to choose the side they like most about me.

Their every instinct - and I have to say this is without exception - is to iron out the bumps, and It's always the bumps that are the most interesting stuff.

People are complex. You can be smart and still look hot. You can be a punk rocker yet have a refined vocabulary. It's all about this mashup that makes us who we are and I think that's a beautiful thing.

Things aren't interesting if you level them. It's the voice that's interesting.

I think the only universal thing is one individual. If you talk about a country or a nation or a culture, it's so vague. I mean what is a nation? A nation is full of nice and bad and long and tall and short and thin people. It's not like everybody is the same.

I'm not one aspect of the human experience - none of us is.

Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8-color boxes, but what you're really looking for are the 64-color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64-color box, though I've got a few missing.

I don't think any of us like to be reduced to just one label.

You can drain the life and nuances and complexity out of things by homogenizing them to make everything harmoniously dull, flat, conflict-free, strife-free.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

When you think of the typical Teach For America corps member, soldiers and ex-bankers are probably not the people who come to mind. In fact, there is no such thing as a typical corps member. They can't be neatly pigeonholed or painted with a broad brush.

I think it would be terrific if everybody was alike.

I don't really do simple. I'm not really interested in simple at the end of the day, because nothing's ever simple, and nothing's ever perfect. People certainly aren't - I would hope, anyway, because that would be boring, wouldn't it?

Is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than of face and stature.

Being different gives the world color.

I'm a human, and I'm multidimensional. If I was the perfect form of anything, I'd be boring. If I was a free spirit all the time, I would be boring; I would lack depth. If I was dark and enigmatic all the time, then I would lack relatability.