I try to work on shows that I would want to watch.

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.

Behind every successful fortune there is a crime.

I'm like the guy who prepares your taxes or a dentist. I'm very conservative and boring in a lot of ways.

Everything is connected to everything else.

I still think about that one Jamiroquai video a lot.

People make mistakes and I'm certainly not saying you [Bernie Sanders] did it for any kind of financial advantage.

In movies, it's so easy to have this 'boom,' to kill, and I think that's inhumane.

But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.

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Believe in order to Understand and Understand in order to Believe

If you ever feel distant, never mistake who has drifted away. Prayer will close this gap.