Demetri Martin Quotes

Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.

I have multiplied visions, and used simultudes.

...larger than life...I've never understood that expression. What's larger than life?

Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.

Poetry is a kind of distilled insinuation. It's a way of expanding and talking around an idea or a question. Sometimes, more actually gets said through such a technique than a full frontal assault.

To be a rebel is not to be a revolutionary. It is more often by a way of spinning one's wheels deeper in sand.

Sam said to me the other day, "I love you like 20 tyrannosauruses on 20 mountaintops," and this is the exact same way in which I love him.

It had always fascinated him that she'd consumed so many words, that her head was full of stories, told a thousand different ways.

The way the Pentagon and its defenders have pushed back against this story is to say: "They weren't doing psychological operations, they were doing information operations and public affairs. They were just helping us spin senators like we normally do."

I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.

A way of using words to say things which could not possibly be said in any other way, things which in a sense do not exist till they are born … in poetry.

She paused. That's just my way of saying I would've killed you if you'd died.

The aphorism: a platitude that swerves, or slides all the way around.

She sounds the way bananas taste.

There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally. As nearly as we can, we must put ourselves in the place of those who uttered the words, and try to divine how they would have dealt with the unforeseen situation; and, although their words are by far the most decisive evidence of what they would have done, they are by no means final.

I read poetry every day. I love the boiled down essence of poetry. I look for poetry in prose. In a way that evocative.

I love metaphor the way some people love junk food.

Metaphor impinges on everything, allowing us - poets and non-poets alike - to experience and think about the world in fluid, unusual ways.

I think a lot of what goes into writing can be taught - not mixing metaphors, etc.

If anyone gets in my way when I'm making a picture, I become irrational. I'm never sure what I am going to do, or sometimes even aware of what I do-only that I want that picture.

We are to extend forgiveness to others in the same way that God did to us: Unconditionally.

I've always wanted to work with Cameron Crowe. I've auditioned for him several times for various projects over the last ten years, and I've always admired the way he worked with me.

Force is followed by loss of strength. This is not the way of the Tao. That which goes against the Tao comes to an early end.

Nowadays, you form your beliefs to fit your behavior, not the other way around.

Connubial Because with alarming accuracy she’d been identifying patterns I was unaware of—this tic, that tendency, like the way I've mastered the language of intimacy in order to conceal how I felt— I knew I was in danger of being terribly understood.