I've a problem with the word charity because I think that NGOs, as I prefer calling them, really do take the work of moral and social responsibilities that ought to be taken on by governments.

Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.

Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life.

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.

I hate the way market forces try to separate us out in to the appropriate demographic - basically in order to sell us things. We need to find stories that we can enjoy together, not separately.

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.

You can't imagine what satisfaction can be gotten from throwing a pie into someone's face.

When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result.

During an election, it's like they're doing my job: they're going around banging the drum for their party and selling their movie. You know, it's the same thing.

Your true passion in life is what you’d be doing if somebody handed you 100 million dollars.

I am not stopping till my critics become my fans.

Marisa starts to snoop. I might as well too. It's not often that I get to visit a water pellet company in a freaky refugee nation. -from Fireseed One

I've always had a great love of music since childhood. It changes every day.. every time you write, it's a new experience. It's a self expression.

The most important choices you make are the choices about how you see yourself, the Universe, and your relationship to the Universe.

My philosophy of defense is to keep the pressure on an opponent until you get to his emotions

I don't think the American people want unilateral government control over the entire health-care system.

Don't fix me; Love me for what's broken.

Human rights are not worthy of the name if they do not protect the people we don't like as well as those we do.