I wish I could recommend the experience of not being killed to everyone.

This is one reason people need to believe in God—because we want someone to know us, truly, all the way through, even the worst of us.

Often you don’t know whether you’re the hero of a romantic comedy or the villain on a Lifetime special until the restraining order arrives.

People are most vociferously opposed to those forces they have to resist more fiercely within themselves.

Let me propose that if your beliefs or convictions matter more to you than people—if they require you to act as though you were a worse person than you are—you may have lost perspective.

If you manage to make it to some semblance of adulthood, just showing up turns out to be one of the kindest, most selfless things you can do for someone.

What dooms our best efforts to cultivate empathy and compassion is always, of course, other people.

The truth is, there are not two kinds of people. There's only one: the kind that loves to divide up into gangs who hate each other's guts.

Let me propose that if your beliefs or convictions matter more to you than people - if they require you to act as though you were a worse person than you are - you may have lost perspective.

The police, finding a corpse with twenty-eight stab wounds in a bathtub, suspected foul play.

It’s easy to demonstrate how progressive and open-minded and loyal you are when it costs you nothing.

Resentments are like swallowing poison and waiting for the other person to die.

The thing I think about is that once you've done it, you then start to think about what you're going to do next. It's much easier to follow something that's not been as successful as this.

There are no mistakes, just happy accidents.

You clap. The Censor wakes up. We all get into trouble.

The bottom line is that Dennis Brown is alive and well, and he's got two lungs and they're kicking and I'm still spitting out them notes.

After fifty most of the bullshit is gone.

I've been doing a lot of music for films and television for quite a few years.

The idea of public reason isn't about the right answers to all these questions, but about the kinds of reasons that they ought to be answered by.

I moved from Minnesota out to Los Angeles and I thought I was going to hate it out there, but I really like it.

Knowing another is endless,' Shepherd had written; 'The thing to be known grows with the knowing.