I would be unelectable. I'm an atheist. As we all know, that is something people won't accept.

Stem cell research can revolutionize medicine, more than anything since antibiotics.

We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved.

I couldn't join a party that, frankly, tolerates members who are bigots for one thing, homophobes, racists.

I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.

Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.

The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.

You cannot be against embryonic stem cell research and be intellectually and therefore morally consistent, if you're not also against in vitro fertilization.

When you hear somebody justifying a war by citing the Almighty, I get a little worried, frankly.

I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline.

My wife and I just prefer Seattle. It's a beautiful city. Great setting. You open your front door in the morning and the air smells like pine and the sea, as opposed to bus exhaust.

As if I were the funniest, weirdest girl in the world - that's how he used to look at me.

Everything new requires determination and courage from a person.

We die the day we lose the will to go on. We die the day we stop caring about life.

I hope to continue my friendship with France and its filmmakers for many years to come.

We have a brain for one reason and one reason only - and that's to produce adaptable and complex movements.

A man that has lost moral sense is like a man in battle with both of his legs shot off: he has nothing to stand on.

When I photograph someone, I want to shoot the subject and get them out of my studio so I can play with the photos and do all the stuff I want.

Certain countries are dumping nuclear waste directly into the ocean, making fish flesh even more poisonous.

Some girls are taught to be sexy.

This life's dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with, not through, the eye.