All knowledge is ultimately rooted in metaphorical (or analogical) modes of perception and thought.

Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.

I think we should take Iraq and Iran and combine them into one country and call it Irate. All the pissed off people live in one place and get it over with.

Life Sucks,get a helmet

You know why the French hate us so much? Thay gave us the croissant. And you know what we did with it? We turned it into our croissandwich, thank you very much.

Why hate someone for the color of their skin when there are much better reasons to hate them?

Crisis doesn't create character; it reveals it.

Ann Romney talking about middle class moms is like Chris Christie talking about a salad

There we were in the middle of a sexual revolution wearing clothes that guaranteed we wouldn't get laid.

I'm really happy I went to a Catholic school because a lot of the repressive tactics they use make for great senses of humor.

What firefighters, and people in our military and cops do is separate from what the rest of us do, basically these people say "I'm going to protect all these strangers."

Philosophy begins in wonder. And at the end when philosophic thought has done its best the wonder remains.

To those who had ordered them to death, one of them said: “We die because the people are asleep and you will die because the people will awaken.”

I was this wide-eyed kid wanting to see everything and do everything

September 11 was terrible, but if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.

Abstract paintings must be as real as those created by the 16th century Italians.

It's better to read first rate science fiction than second rate science-it's a lot more fun, and no more likely to be wrong.

In matters pertaining to the care of life there has been no marked gain over Greek and Roman antiquity.

I just feel like there hasn't been enough time away from all this other stuff and into this new world or sort of big world that it hasn't worn off yet.

Humans are cowards in the face of happiness. It takes courage to hold on to happiness.

Bards were terrible at keeping secrets. They insisted on putting them to music.