I wish dogs understood: 'We're going in five minutes.

Sometimes standing up for what you believe means standing down and allowing the universe to do its work.

Politicians study hard and work diligently their entire lives to be able to stand in front of a national audience and lie through their teeth.

The bigger the words the weaker the voice.

To find meaning in our lives we need consistent exposure to kids, elders and animals... cuz kids and animals aren't looking for it, and elders are the closest to finding it.

I don't write comedy. I write drama that's funny.

I love cheetahs. Every moment of every day is spent in fear of dying a terrible death yet they always carry themselves elegantly, remain loyal to their family, and never complain about anything.

Talent is being unabashedly and unapologetically fearless in the work that you do. The only difference between having talent and not having talent is fear.

Stupidity is actually in a way the mark of intelligence - if you're not doing stupid things that defy logic you're probably not taking enough risks.

Out of all the medical advancements in human history I'm still most in awe of that tiny little piece of toilet paper that can stop a gushing razor cut in its tracks.

What I love about New York: the faster and more recklessly my cab driver drives the safer and all around better I feel.

Translation software is not making translators obsolete. Has medical diagnostic software made doctors obsolete?

Without the dark we'd never see the stars.

You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it to the page. The page is jealous and tyrannical; the page is made of time and matter; the page always wins.

You cannot ... transmute some incoherent mixture of words into sense merely by introducing the three-letter word "God" to be its grammatical subject.

What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.

You may boo, you may turn your back, but I have devoted my life to the conservative cause.

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

If I declare it to be so, then this is a portrait.

Most of the scientific community believes that for the full potential of embryonic stem cell research to be reached, the number of cell lines readily available to scientists must increase.

If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well. It were done quickly.