I suddenly stopped and looked out at the sea and thought, my God, how beautiful this is ... for 26 years I had never really looked at it before.

No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.

But if science may be said to be blind without philosophy, it is true also that philosophy is virtually empty without science.

We say that a sentence is factually significant to any given person, if, and only if, he knows how to verify the proposition which it purports to express.

Even logical positivists are capable of love.

Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?

I saw a Divine Being. I'm afraid I'm going to have to revise all my various books and opinions.

The ground for taking ignorance to be restrictive of freedom is that it causes people to make choices which they would not have made if they had seen what the realization of their choices involved.

It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.

No moral system can rest solely on authority.

It appears, then, that ethics, as a branch of knowledge, is nothing more than a department of psychologyand sociology.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

You wrote my thoughtsFor all the world to seePainted the skyWith immortal words

Suddenly I'm not half the girl I used to be. There's a shadow hanging over me . . . From me to you out of my electric devil.

A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.

Of all the views that are detached from reality, the most delusional is that Christians are persecuted in the U.S.

Enemies are, to me, as important as friends in my life, and when they die I mourn their passing.

I have no idea what's next, I simply don't have a clue.

You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.

Those who don't move don't notice their chains.

As an actor, anything that you have to help get you into character is helpful.