I hear it said of somebody that he is leading a double life. I think to myself: Just two?

No great deed, private or public, has ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.

The Internet is like closing time at a blue-collar bar in Boston. Everyone’s drunk and ugly and they’re going to pass out in a few minutes.

Incorruptibility by money is the old story... Now it's incorruptibility by media.

There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.

There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people.

A thoughtless citizen of a democracy is a delinquent citizen of a democracy.

American Jews, like Americans, have a very consumerist attitude toward their identity: they pick and choose the bits of this and that they like.

The velocity and volume on the Web are so great that nothing is forgotten and nothing is remembered.

Use the new technologies for the old purposes.

I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.

I want that. I want that awful intense and serious unhappiness, cos then I might feel better, and then I might be happy.

What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.

Telling stories to make himself into something that he isn’t. We all do it. We all tell stories to make ourselves look better.

And if she had appeared, would I have dared to speak to her?

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.

I would call the French scumbags, but that, of course, would be a disservice to bags filled with scum. I say we invade Iraq, then invade Chirac.

Each character you play has its own set of characteristics, for want of a better word.

The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others.

Prayer presupposes faith. No prayer is in vain. Prayer is like any other action.

Fine doesn't mean fine! The scale goes: great, good, okay, not okay, I hate you, fine.