I prefer to linger on the periphery before making a commitment.

Experience as much as you can and absorb a lot of reality. Otherwise, your writing will have the force of a Wiffle ball.

If there's reason for hope, it lies in man's occasional binges of cooperation. To save our planet, we'll need that kind of heroic effort, in which all types of people join forces for the common good

I have nothing but respect for the purist who won't work for the pharaoh. But I'm not that strong.

There's a built-up tension in religion, and if you can release it, you'll get a huge and satisfying laugh.

Every joke can't be dazzling. And if you think you spotted an inconsistency, you did!

I was brought up Catholic and, of course, I strayed and repudiated it. That's a painful thing to go through, because you have to look back and realize that you wasted a gigantic chunk of your life.

I have a deep suspicion of social institutions and tradition in general.

There's absolutely no way that something I do on my own is going to be seen in Malaysia.

I resisted parenthood for a long, long time. But having a daughter has given me a sense of hopefulness that I didn't have before.

Clever is the eunuch version of funny.

I've learnt not to draw my sword first to strike. That in no way portends I have the most feeble of minds or might . . . Probably, I'm waiting for the perfect moment to startle with a fatal strike.

I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.

I don't want the world to define God for me. I want the Holy Spirit to reveal God to me.

Permaculture creates a cultivated ecology, which is designed to produce more human and animal food than is generally found in nature.

I know a lot about health, wellness, and nutrition. I make my own kombucha. I'm clumsy.

If some people are so hungry for a feeling of importance that they actually go insane to get it, imagine what miracle you and I can achieve by giving people honest appreciation this side of insanity.

Mere pleasure is at best but fleeting; happiness is abiding, for in the recollection thereof is renewed.

I think I’m his biggest fan. Like, I’m really sorry everybody out there but you have a tough time beating me. I’m like the number one Chris Colfer fan club.

Art teachers are always the doormats of the previous generation.

Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi.