I was a regular dork. I was a kid who was scrawny and all that, and probably kind of dumb or something. I wasn't unordinary; I wasn't extraordinary.

One thing that I've struggled with has been a certain amount of animosity toward the whole human race.

Humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy.

There's no real reason for me to be so obsessed with trying to understand the true nature of things. You can live a perfectly happy life being utterly confused and not knowing.

I do like talking with friends about big concepts, you know, the stuff that will ruin a party. To me, the party hasn't begun until we're talking about the nonexistence of God.

I tend to [have] a lot of ideas but then just leave them in that infant form and kind of move on.

I'm not really excited about the idea of committing to anything permanently.

My dad and I get into it all the time. He loves to discuss politics much more than I do and we have pretty heated conversations.

I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can.

I suppose, if someone was into baseball for an extended period of time during their formative years, they're always going to be interested in it.

I really [enjoy] working with new people and just sort of the freshness of it. ... I [want] to have those new conversations, musically and otherwise.

I think when you're a mom and an actor, it forces you to leave any actor neuroses behind and just concentrate on the work.

We can build a new modern electric grid. That's a lot of jobs; that's a lot of new economic activity.

If you want to look young and thin, hang around old fat people.

You should use your influence to help other platforms succeed.

If your nose is up in the air, you cannot see where you are going.

Hiding spending does not reduce spending.

On climate change, there is a clear, definitive and ineluctable ethical imperative to act.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.

Probably what pushed the Russians over the edge was SDI... They realized they couldn't beat us...