I am who I am and I am who I was, and I am who I will always be!

Even the most ill-formed words, set to paper, are a great blessing.

If magic violates the fundamental laws of nature, they clearly weren't all that fundamental.

Ignore ignorance? You might as well withhold medicine from a very sick patient. Not only will the patient get worse, the disease will spread.

The most dangerous aspect of religion is its tendency to glorify the absurd and justify the abhorrent.

Obsoletes and absolutes are the stock in trade of religions that place their faith in an 'unchanging' god while faced with the reality of an ever-changing world.

If we subject religious claims to a lesser degree of scrutiny, we should not be surprised if religious people subject us to a greater degree of servitude.

You'll never be as good as the next page you write, or as bad as the last one.

I think ethical ambivalence is a kind of innoculation, a way of excusing yourself in advance for something you actually want to do. No offense.

Some only learn the value of time when it’s too late!

Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit.

When I'm, like, 30, I want to go off the map, have a family and live in Malibu with a farm, and just raise my own chickens.

Happiness isn't wanting what you can get, but wanting what you have.

A lot of time when I'm creating songs, they're in real time. When I'm writing the song, I feel what I'm feeling for its full potential. As soon as the song is over, I'm like, I created art.

Mandela means a lot to the world. He's something special. There's only a few people in the history of mankind with that kind of charisma.

I was going to buy a van and move to LA so I could secretly pursue acting without any of my friends knowing.

To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American.

I wield my spear in the name of justice!