I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.

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.

I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.

A curt voice echoed in Nathaniel’s head, "Prep for impact. This is going to hurt.

I like shows that have some level of intelligence to them. When it's not as predictable, when you don't know what's coming at you.

True, but irrelevant.

One of the chief triumphs of modern mathematics consists in having discovered what mathematics really is.

If we want a book to do more than what it does, that's a condemnation. If we want it to do more of what it does, that's an endorsement.

No matter what you do for a living all we have is music to get through certain situations.

Everytime people said I was pretty, I thought of everything ugly swarming beneath my clothes.

I'm a frotteur, someone who likes to rub words in his hand, to turn them around and feel them, to wonder if that really is the best word possible.

It is always cheaper to do the job right the first time.