B. J. Novak Quotes


There's always going to be one more thing. Because that's what infinite feels like. And the difference between love and everything else is that it's infinite, it's built out of something infinite, or it feels like it is, anyway, which is the same thing to us. You think a million billion more things will come your way, a million billion more versions of everything. But no, everything that actually causes that infinite feeling, the circumstances of every infinite feeling, is so, so finite.


Citations

Novak, B. J. One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories. Alfred A. Knopf, 2014, p. 254.

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B. J. Novak
B. J. Novak
  • Born: July 31, 1979
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Actor, Writer, Comedian, Director

Benjamin Joseph Manaly Novak is an American actor, writer, comedian, and director. Novak is best known as one of the writers and executive producers of The Office (2005–2013), in which he also played Ryan Howard, and as the best-selling author of the children's book, The Book With No Pictures. As an actor, he has also appeared as PFC Smithson "The Little Man" Utivich in the film Inglourious Basterds (2009), Robert B. Sherman in Saving Mr. Banks (2013), and Harry J. Sonneborn in The Founder (2016).