Danny Wallace Quotations

I'm a long-time fan of Rob Long, and his books are hugely re-readable, detailing the ins and outs of being a Hollywood comedy writer with a past success but with everything to prove.

I think we all have those moments at one point or other in our lives... when we see someone and immediately imagine a whole universe around them. A relationship, a future, and all based on just a second which might not even have been in their company. It's amazing how quickly the human mind can come up with this stuff.

The only time you have no opportunities is when you decide to stop taking them.

But the happiest people are the ones who understand that good things occur when one allows them to.

I was saying yes because when you're in love, the world is full of possibilities, and when you're in love, you want to take every single one of them.

Probably some of the best things that have ever happened to you in life, happened because you said yes to something. Otherwise things just sort of stay the same.

The people around you are you. They share your history. They can even write it with you. And when you lose one, there's no doubt you lose some of yourself, however they're lost.

Anonymity is an abused privilege, abused most by people who mistake vitriol for wisdom and cynicism for wit.

And as I looked at the star, I realised what millions of other people have realised when looking at stars. We're tiny. We don't matter. We're here for a second and then gone the next. We're a sneeze in the life of the universe.

I will say yes to every favor, request, suggestion and invitation. I will swear to say yes where once I would say no.

The sad thing is, I was discovering that you almost have to make a joke of being good to strangers. Up and down the country, these people doing their good deeds were doubtless being seen as slightly eccentric, when in reality and in an ideal world they should be deemed the most normal people of all.

Wagamama. Text messaging aficionados might like to note that this is one of the most satisfying words you can possibly type.

If I was going to act irresponsibly, the least I could do was be responsible for it.

I think if you've got a good idea it will stand out in one of the different mediums. For example, something might happen to me today and it could be something to talk about tomorrow on the radio, or I can write about it, or perhaps it will be best suited to telly.

Take the stupidest thing you've ever done. At least it's done. It's over. It's gone. We can all learn from our mistakes and heal and move on. But it's harder to learn or heal or move on from something that hasn't happened; something we don't know and is therefore indefinable; something which could very easily have been the best thing in our lives, if only we'd taken the plunge, if only we'd held our breath and stood up and done it, if only we'd said yes.

What a terrible thing, I thought, to let a moment go.

Sometimes the little opportunities that fly at us each day can have the biggest impact.

The closed mind is a disease. You need to have an open mind; otherwise life will just pass you by.

Essays just aren't my thing: no matter how hard I tried, it seemed I was always a bit average.

A man came up to me at a party and asked if I wanted to be in his video game. I of course said yes. And then it turned out it was 'Assassin's Creed', so that was great. They let me ad lib a lot and mess about and be very snarky indeed, and I'm thrilled by the success of all their hard work.

I try to find where the fun is and go there and then get asked if I want to have more fun. That's the way I want my life to go. Follow the fun.