If my hand on yours trembles it's because bodies never lie.

One is never wounded by the love one gives, only by the love one expects.

The slope contains many wonders not found at the summit.

Philosophers console themselves with explanations.

The search for first causes is the ultimate wild goose chase.

When you separate thought from life, you get philosophy.

Logical positivism is philosophy from the neck up.

The questions philosophers ask are not so much meaningless as irrelevant.

No explanation is ever as good as not having one.

The truth is what you live through while you're looking for the truth.

Never confuse a hunger for knowledge with a thirst for truth.

Forgive yourself and you will be happy. Forgive everything and you will be happiest.

When I started out, nobody gave me scripts, so I had to write...

In my head, I wanted to be Madonna, but the music I was writing on paper was not what you'd choreograph dancers in costumes to. It was more coffee-house stuff.

There's no love without pain.

A winner listens, a loser just waits until it is their turn to talk.

Unfortunately, there are writers whose only concern is how good they could make themselves look on a title.

If you wish to draw off the people from a bad or wicked custom, you must beat up for a march; you must make an excitement, do something that everybody will notice.

I went to a funeral recently, and they handed out Kleenex before the funeral. Which I thought was cocky.

I think everybody focuses on race, but it's about a ton of things, and I just see these things as all interrelated and all interwoven in a weird way.

Believing is seeing. It's much more effective than the old notion that seeing is believing.