For me, the big chore is always the same: how to begin a sentence, how to continue it, how to complete it.

Life is not only full of sound and fury. It also has butterflies, flowers, art.

There is no such thing as a 'real' representation of 'reality.' Except, perhaps, in algebraic formulae.

To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective.

Time is the essence of life

Later the place was as deserted as Malcolm Muggeridge's Christmas party of fellow intellectuals.

I cannot think who my residents hurt but how I can give them tools to remain on the right side of civilization.

You know, I think we Indians are afraid to show and celebrate our happiness, lest things change around. But I feel that it's okay to be sad and okay to show when you are happy.

I support the death penalty for the kingpin, the guy at the top, but I don't think you should throw a drug offender in jail for five years, and let a mugger out after a year.

If you want to be a Jewish state and you want to remain a democracy, you have to have a two-state solution.

Stupid human voices always ruining everything.

Choosing a way to die, what's the difference? Choosing a way to live, now that's the hard part.

If Hollywood stars speak out, so do all sorts of other people. Now Hollywood stars can get a better hearing.

Death when to death a death by death hath given Then shall be op't the long shut gates of heaven. [Mors, mortis morti mortem nisi morte dedisset (dedisses).]