I'd love to get a chance to talk shop with Joss Whedon. That's pretty high up there on the list.

When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned

The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.

Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.

If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.

Testifying doesn't mean you're bragging.

I just love the delusional, hallucinatory qualities of sleep deprivation. I can't get enough of it.

In principle, there are only three main components of spending that much matter to monetary policy: consumer spending, business investment and exports and trade.

The laissez-faire argument relies on the same tacit appeal to perfection as does communism.

I said about Van Jones . Be careful. This guy is extraordinarily dangerous and he is smart.

Fanatics," Halt said. "Don't you just love 'em?

The media simply does not understand Econ 101.

Terrible wars have been fought where millions have died for one idea - freedom. And it seems that something that means so much to so many people would be worth having.

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

I guess now music is so saturated and so microwaved. It's, like, 15 minutes in the microwave and boom, you've got something. Nobody's putting passion or any thought behind it anymore.