For the serious artist does not satisfy needs

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.

...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?

Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?

Sanity is a handicap and liability if you're living in a mad world.

It's a never ending dream for everyone it seems, to find again what was once precious and has been lost.

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

If we go on as we are, we will destroy in the next century everything that the poets have been singing about for the past two thousand years.

Piracy often reflects market failures on the part of producers rather than moral failures on the part of consumers.

Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.

It is indeed the boundary of life, beyond which we are not to pass; which the law of nature has pitched for a limit not to be exceeded.

I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana.

We are going to continue having these meetings, everyday, until I find out why no work is getting done.

In the midst of chaos, you've gotta be able to slow it down. That's one of the things that God's gifted me with, it's one of the things that I've trained for, and train for now.

For someone attacked by criminals to be victimized a second time by a second-guessing legal system is wrong.