An unexamined life is not worth living, and an unexamined faith is not worth holding.

The downside of being a dean is that I'd rather drop off my son at (Michael Jackson's) Neverland Ranch than go to all those meetings.

Imagination is a gift given to us from God and each one of us use it differently.

You can't have a great life unless you move two things: your body AND your mind. Keep them both exercised by taking them places they've never before been.

Well, I've got tomorrow morning off, so I thought I might spend that thinking about her. Basically, my plan is to maybe just romantically obsess over her but not really do anything about it.

Whatever they did, the Elysians were careful never to be vehement.

My parents were not pushy or anything like that. I think my mom was still expecting me to be an astronaut, but now she is very happy that I'm not doing that.

Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage.

I didn't really know that much about the Maoists, but I just knew that they seemed to be so few and yet they painted themselves green and stood in front of the police waiting to get picked off.

Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek.

Many really good films allow us to empathize with other lives.

My audience knows me, and I wear beautiful clothes as a badge of honor. They remember where I came from.