If I am an agnostic, Calyxa, it's because I'm also a realist.

We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere.

[There was] only one news channel, overseen by a bland and complexly multicultural board of advisors. It broadcast in fifteen languages and was, as a rule, interesting in none of them.

Nobody wants to conduct an autopsy on a dead saint.

For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape .

We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father's unique way of evaluating people. You can tell a lot about a person, he once said, by the way they look at the stars.

To capture the pawn, threaten the queen.

We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced.

I don't believe money is evil, but it can be terribly corrosive.

I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry.

Everybody falls, and we all land somewhere.

Everyone is needed, but no one is necessary.

If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature; and do what a little child could do — love.

Belief is self-knowing. Even Yoda out of Star Wars said, 'Do or do not. There is no try.'

I like to work in costumes, makeup, and hair that allow me tremendous freedom.

Anyone who ever wondered how much they could love a child who did not spring from their own loins, know this: it is the same. The feeling of love is so profound, it's incredible and surprising.

Certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation.

Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.

The future of the Republican Party and the future of America is based on a values system and the issues that drive those values are on our side.

I always bring it up to my lawyer every now and then. And another reason we have to revisit it is because there is a restoration going on right now for the film through UCLA and Sundance.

The first priority of humankind in this era is to establish an effective system of world law that will assure peace with justice among the peoples of the world.