Every hour that you spend doing something, even if you love it more than anything, you're not with your family. Every project that you take on, that's another choice.

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.

Children are the only bold philosophers. And bold philosophers are invariably children.

When we live in the past, there is no future.

It's incredible to see labor unions and environmentalists getting together to stop the corporate mentality that destroys both jobs and the environment.

Maybellene, why can't you be true?

Even though [Donald] Trump is reported to not read very much and to have a limited range of experience, he is often certain that he is right and boldly asserts the correctness of his positions.

Fools boast of what they will do. Heroes do it.

Judy Garland was just so delicious in every way and just so honest and generous.

This is a job and we want to have fun. But it's a job and we should look like we're going to work.

Unproductive worry - like Parkinson's proverbial law - tends to expand to fill the time available.

I've never worked for a newspaper. I've had some very bad reviews in newspapers.