I found once you start writing about God it's really fun. It's like a rock singer saying "baby." "Baby, baby, baaayy-by." You start saying "God" on the page and you don't want to stop.

Yo can’t reason someone out of something he didn’t reason himself into.

I would never ever condone any violence of any kind. But in the theater of fiction, blood is delightful.

I'm the type of spiritual person that doesn't speak openly about their spirituality. Irony is probably my religion.

Livability has always struck me as a consolation prize.

The debate analysis in the media is rampant with contest analogies of war, baseball, boxing, football; you name it. Any testosterone contest imaginable is fair game.

Technology requires knowledge and expertise more than it requires money.

I grew up with very little religious training. Actually, like, none. I think what Jewishness I felt as a kid stemmed almost entirely from this atrocity in our family tree.

We moved up to Oregon when I was eight, and I think the radical absence of Jewish life here might have strangely made me feel more Jewish. It's a contextual thing I guess.

I think these large bureaucratic institutions are created in some way explicitly to inoculate anyone from actual responsibility, to create a much more diffuse and blameless kind of society.

This’ path is not to be followed through force. It is to be followed through understanding.

I hope people don't take kittens on a whim, like they would a toy, then not care for them.

Lyndon B. Johnson thought he'd have the boys home from Vietnam by Christmas - for four Christmases in a row (he never shifted course, and lost his presidency for it).

Taste may change, but inclination never.

If you want to be an actor, you have to do it because you love acting, not because you want to be a celebrity.

What we cannot think we cannot think, therefore we also cannot say what we cannot think.

Your ability to discipline yourself to set clear goals, and then to work toward them every day, will do more to guarantee your success than any other single factor.

The most successful people I've worked with, like the Rolling Stones - people of a different, kind of legendary caliber - have such great, warm energy.

If I look at the message I'm portraying, I think it definitely is be who you are, but be your best you.

Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.