Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.

A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.

The happy people are those who are producing something.

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

Take away fear, and the battle of Freedom is half won.

Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.

His smile was small and immediate, crooked, like I’d put his whole world off its axis, but he was somehow okay with that.

If you are not going to be a comfort, have the decency to be an empty space.

I'm obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books.

All men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with a mighty urge to become otherwise.

I said bluntly that if the president were to follow Mr. Clifford's advice and if in the elections I were to vote, I would vote against the president.

My dad was quite a forbidding figure. I realise now that that was mainly because he worked so hard. He wasn't unkind, but he was a presence.

Have the #‎ life you want by being fully present to the life you have.

I just try to play more and more difficult roles.

Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.