In insisting that personal habit and political action be one and the same, absolutist moralizing limits the possibilities of both.

The mistakes we make when we are young are just as important to us as food or air. Without learning how to do things the wrong way, we can never learn how to do them the right way.

What I knew was I liked math and science, and I never wanted to memorize everything. I wanted to understand where it came from.

Obamacare would never have passed without decades of massive immigration from the Third World. Liberals didn't change any minds - they changed the voters.

It’s over me like a ton of water, the things I don’t know.

Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame Blessed is the flame that burns in the secret fastness of the heart

It is tranquil people who accomplish much.

I don't think that my work is actually effectively dealing with history. I think of my work as subsumed by history or consumed by history.

Acting is collaborative because you are working with another actor, and it's almost like a two-man juggling team. You have to really be in sync.

Architecture trumps licensing any time.