Forgiveness frees the forgiver.

Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.

Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable.

Handwriting is civilization's casual encephalogram.

A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights.

People travel because it teaches them things they could learn no other way.

Never try to wear a hat that has more character than you do.

As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.

Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business.

One can live with the thought of one's own death. It is the thought of the death of the words and books that is terrifying for that is the deeper extinction.

When you're working with friends, I think there's a certain sensibility that you share, and it's easy to coordinate your ideas and work together to bring them in a cohesive way.

You don't think of the devil who's inside.

I drink alone. Yeah, with nobody else. You know when I drink alone, I prefer to be by myself.

Artists... disappeared long ago as social forces. So did the church.

That cup of tea is definately not down your alley

Human rights for everybody, there is no difference. Live on! And be yourself!

I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.

You only get honest expression when I spit in your ear; That means even when I'm dissing you I'm being sincere.

Im a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.

The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.