I've never had much use for religion, except when it comes to swearing or begging for mercy.

life is full when you know where you are and where you are going.

A slave that acknowledges its enslavement is halfway to its liberation.

Everyone has a weakness. Even a demigod.

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.

There is a Jewish notion that holiness is found with other people. To understand what life really is, one has to share it.

I don't think you can spend too much time as an artist believing what other people think.

I gave my life to Christ about 1991.

I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I'm a human being, too. And I'm on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.