As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was.

There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua.

I consider myself a bassist first.

Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.

We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something.

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself.

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

Mystery is more important than knowledge.

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

A willing spirit is a divine-being.

One thing you learn in this job [being US President] is that even if something's not your fault, you're still responsible. And that's how it should be.

The best teams have chemistry. They communicate with each other and they sacrifice personal glory for a common goal.

I had so many secrets and so much social repression throughout my life. I guess I'm just a shy person and feel like my true self is unacceptable to most people.

Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.

If you surround yourself with positive people who build you up, the sky is the limit.

Translation is always a treason, and as a Ming author observes, can at its best be only the reverse side of a brocade- all the threads are there, but not the subtlety of colour or design.

Two minutes later the right arm was pointing normally and the reaction to the left appeared. The patient made no complaint at all about the experiment.

When we finally decide that drug prohibition has been no more successful than alcohol prohibition, the drug dealers will disappear.

I won't read novels while writing novels.