All community is in some way imagined

Divinity is born from neural processes, not some Supreme Entity.

I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.

Never do today what you can do tomorrow, because something may occur to make you regret your premature action.

The art of politics is to separate actions from consequences

I was lucky that when Lorne Michaels came looking for women comedy writers, there werent too many in New York at the time. I was at the top of a very short list. I think that was all good fortune.

No, one couldn't make a revolution, one couldn't even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing.

The Hand of providence has been so conspicuous in all this, that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more than wicked, that has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his obligations.

Technology is a many-headed monster and perhaps it would be better to regress to a safer past and avoid technological change; it is tempting to think like that.

I performed it all the way through for people. People would say, "We love you, we want to sign you," and then there'd always be one person who'd say, "He's just a producer."

So books are real to me, too; they link me not just with other minds but with the vision of other minds, what those minds understand and see. I see their worlds as well as I see my own.