It’s not reality that makes people happy

Clones fit in. Freaks stand out. Ask me which one I prefer.

The half-baked sermon causes spiritual indigestion

The American people care about the fact that we have $17 trillion in debt and 10 percent of every tax dollar that's coming in is going to pay for past overspending.

Every mathematical discipline goes through three periods of development: the naive, the formal, and the critical.

[On disagreeing with her husband about his slave-holding:] I cannot give my conscience into the keeping of another human being or submit the actions dictated by my conscience to their will.

Only the magic and the dream are true — all the rest's a lie.

We are not actually equal - humanity - if we are not allowed to freely love one another.

But I don't necessarily define my faith by going to church every Sunday.

I want only dead actors. That way there'll be no jealousy.

There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It's bound to try a man's soul.