Matthew Bright Quotes

The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.

The funny thing is, all my friends are short. I wasn't aware of tall people till I got to high school. I didn't know they existed. I was sheltered.

I've noticed a pattern in stars that start acting out in public. Every one of them felt like they grew up without love.

What I know is my music gets blamed for school shootings.

I was depressed as a child. I found it hard to make friends. My favourite thing was locking myself in the bathroom and practising comedy routines.

None of my characters seem to have had sex yet - I haven't written about that. And I wouldn't want to deal with what's happening in Oregon - the school shootings.

We're allowing every Eric Harris, every troubled kid out there, to become the next Tim McVeigh.

School shootings were invented by blacks... and stolen by the white man.

It's funny that there was so much disturbance about having a Catholic in the White House with Kennedy, and when we finally get a religion in the White House that's causing a lot of conflicts, and concerns, and disturbances for a lot of people, it's in the Bush Administration.

The funny thing is, I don't actually think of myself as fat at all. I don't think I am. Not really.

How many more school shootings do we need before we start talking about this as a social problem, and not merely a random collection of isolated incidents?

The schizophrenic has no sense of humor. His world is a constantly daunting, unfriendly place.

Typical news accounts and commentaries about school shootings and rampage killings rarely mention gender.

You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't believe it happened here. We can't believe it's these suburban white kids.' It's only them!

The funny thing about me is I'm kind of schizophrenic, because after four or five nights in a row of going out to parties, I just have to be alone. I hate people and feel like they're keeping me from what I really want to do, like write a fabulous novel, which I probably never will.

'Bowling For Columbine' and 'Gus Van Sant's Elephant' really intrigued me. With 'Bowling For Columbine', I think Michael Moore just gave the perfect exploration of both the mass media interpretation of the event and going into the minds of these kids. These were messed-up kids who had hit a point of no return.

I know a lot of sad people who aren't comedians.

Young people across the country have grown up traumatized by the gun violence epidemic.

I know parents across America remain sick with worry about the safety of their children. I feel that anguish.

Peter Falk and Denis Leary today walked into a Starbucks and shot 27 people, without any announcement whatsoever.

Small wonder our national spirit is husk empty. We have more information but less knowledge. More communication but less community. More goods but less goodwill. More of virtually everything save that which the human spirit requires. So distracted have we become sating this new need or that material appetite, we hardly noticed the departure of happiness

Your worst enemies are made when you ignore people. Those boys in America who shot dead classmates recently, didn't do that because they woke up with a positive self image that morning and then felt like slaughtering their friends.

The doctors are all agreed that I am suffering for want of society. Was never a case like it. First, I did not know that I was suffering at all. Secondly, as an Irishman might say, I had thought it was indigestion of the society I got.

How many evils have flowed from religion.

Religious creeds encourage some of the craziest kinds of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and favor severe manifestations of neurosis, borderline personality states, and sometimes even psychosis.