Let me propose that if your beliefs or convictions matter more to you than people - if they require you to act as though you were a worse person than you are - you may have lost perspective.

This is one reason people need to believe in God—because we want someone to know us, truly, all the way through, even the worst of us.

Often you don’t know whether you’re the hero of a romantic comedy or the villain on a Lifetime special until the restraining order arrives.

I wish I could recommend the experience of not being killed to everyone.

People are most vociferously opposed to those forces they have to resist more fiercely within themselves.

Let me propose that if your beliefs or convictions matter more to you than people—if they require you to act as though you were a worse person than you are—you may have lost perspective.

If you manage to make it to some semblance of adulthood, just showing up turns out to be one of the kindest, most selfless things you can do for someone.

What dooms our best efforts to cultivate empathy and compassion is always, of course, other people.

The truth is, there are not two kinds of people. There's only one: the kind that loves to divide up into gangs who hate each other's guts.

The police, finding a corpse with twenty-eight stab wounds in a bathtub, suspected foul play.

It’s easy to demonstrate how progressive and open-minded and loyal you are when it costs you nothing.

It was an epoch of her life, an hour never to be forgotten, this first coming into relation with a really noble library.

The path of awakening is not about becoming who you are. Rather it is about unbecoming who you are not.

I've just always been a fan of really fringy, outsider things, and I've always been a balloon in the wind, in terms of where that takes me.

Maybe there is something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. It's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt because it matters.

The speaker must choose a comprehensible expression so that speaker and hearer can understand one another.

The handling of a problem seems to be simply the increase of ability to confront the problem and when the problem can be totally confronted it no longer exists.

My life and creative work are justified and completed by Blade Runner.

I should have thought of this years ago. But that was the problem with being sane. Sane people played by the rules. They looked for rational explanations and solutions in an insane universe.

In the world of movie personalities the distance between popularity and politics is short.

The smallness of our desires may contribute reasonably to our wealth.