I think that even if you're wondering if two characters are ever going to kiss, drawing out the inevitability is part of the fun. Whatever the genre happens to be.

There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua.

I consider myself a bassist first.

Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.

We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something.

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself.

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

Mystery is more important than knowledge.

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.

MANAGE YOUR MOOD: Name 1 thing that surprised you today...Name 1 thing that moved you...Name 1 thing that inspired you...

I always find that after reading books written by Jane Austen that I speak much more properly, at least for a while.

I used to play the piano in the band, and so there's some horrendous scenes of me playing the keyboards.

Every time you have a chance, go within and do your meditation.

I became disconnected from the childlike play that art could be. I spent so much time fearing I wasn't good enough that I lost the sense that my artistic expression was worthy.

Karan Johar finally attained puberty at 42

I have no idea what White House statement was issued, but I stand by it 100 percent.

The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact.

For me the hardest struggle in my faith life was the Catholic Church is against the death penalty.