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.

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.

Clever is the eunuch version of funny.

I don't like the antagonism that most religions have for science, and freedom and, frankly, individuality. I do like the Dalai Lama.

The energy industry is filled with toxic people that are following a corporate government subsidized known biologically toxic agenda.

As God once said, and I think rightly.

Whether you want to admit it or not, people begin to judge you the minute you walk in the door.

To contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself OUTSIDE it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves.

It is sort of a disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out.

New York is the greatest character actor ever. Any film that is shot in New York is elevated by the city.

Midnight shout and revelry, Tipsy dance and jollity.

I'm too judgmental of other people putting themselves out there in any way, I guess.

The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary.

Sensibility of mind is indeed the parent of every virtue, but it is the parent of much misery, too.