Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.

I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief struggle and flashes of vision which enlighten.

In real love you want the other person's good.

The great thing to learn about life is first not to do what you don't want to do and second to do what you do want to do.

My unreality is chiefly this: I have never felt much like a human being. It's a splendid feeling.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.

I had never seen the end of day and the beginning of the night greet each other. We were caught in the loveliness between the two. A House Like a Lotus

He's the President—it's the responsibility of every citizen to criticize aggressively when they think it's warranted.

When we leverage, we aggregate and organize existing resources to achieve success.

People in New England think that the Red Sox won that series, three games to four.

I think closing-off is the most detrimental thing we can do as people. Also, the idea of not judging oneself.

It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

It's fun to be able to revisit a song and do something that doesn't really illustrate the song but works tangentially or runs parallel to the song in some way.

All of the directors I've worked with I've gotten along with very well.

The nature of democracy is such that when there's - there'll be revulsion, obviously, towards - that's never going to happen again.