If you didn't have me to rake you over the coals now and then, there wouldn't be any fire in your life at all.

All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together.

Horror was rooted in sympathy . . . in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst.

The dead pull the living down.

He'd possessed all the key elements of a school shooter: hormones, misery, ammunition. People wondered how something like Columbine could happen. Jude wondered why it didn't happen more often.

The public is very fickle as I was saying to my cabdriver Gerald Ford.

It's not enough to hit the notes. There is no point in the singers just standing there and sounding wonderful if they're not connecting with the characters they are portraying.

Our past is a novel that we are constantly revising.

Instant-doomsday hyperbole caused the world's attention to focus on the hypothetical threat of global warming to the exclusion of environmental menaces that are real, palpable, and awful right now.

A lot of work and money has been spent on astronomy and yet we have not found life. So we are rare, and rare things tend to be fragile and you have to be careful about them

They really don't know where the future lies. If developers decide to build a high-rise where the McCormick building is, they'd have nowhere to go.

Men do not change; they unmask themselves.

When I ponder my mind I consistently find It is glued On food.

Someone once said to me, 'Are you telling me that chair isn't real, that it's only thought?' I said 'Of course the chair is real. But it comes to you via Thought

Anyone who puts a small gloss on a fundamental technology, calls it proprietary, and then tries to keep others from building on it, is a thief.