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

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.

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.

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.

We can't rightly ever talk about the future, if you think about it. We can only talk about what we imagine or wish for. It's not the same thing.

There are 2 types of people on face the difficulty, :1 - Damn it!2 - Challenge accepted!

Even a true artist does not always produce art.

Invention is totally independent of the will.

I saw a transvestite wearing a T-shirt that said 'Guess'.

We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows. Those are metaphors. We also think of time as a medium in which we exist.

There's two ways of working in Washington, ... One is to go along and get along. The other is to stand up for what you believe in.

The fly in her argument is that when she says, 'they' will feel like lemons, we don't know who 'they' are. And 'they' might BE lemons.

Life as we knew it is passing away, and something new is emerging to take its place, The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for a Radically New Life.

I met Bush but we didn't talk at all. To tell you the truth, I was too pissed.