Meditation on the majestic energyof the universe should increase our love for humanity, should widen, not narrow, our hearts.

The use of God in moral debate is so problematic as to be almost worthless.

When a popular phenomenon reaches the cover of 'Time,' it is already out of fashion.

When true forgiveness happens it is one of the most astonishing and liberating of the human experience.

Religion is the most powerful alternative to God.

The wrong question to ask of a myth is whether it is true or false. The right question is whether it is living or dead, whether it still speaks to our condition.

Human beings do terrible things to each other and the tragic thing about it all is the way the remembrance of past hurt can rob us of our future and become the narrative of our lives.

We will go on producing myths, ways of explaining ourselves to ourselves but, like everything else about us, they are in constant transition and we must not fundamentalise any of them.

Names do not write poems nor do they create work.

Short questions with long answers, my boy.

Despair is criminal.

I see technology as being an extension of the human body.

Cultural objects have no notable identity outside of that which we confer upon them. Their value is entirely a product of the interaction that we have with them.

Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

Maybe the impossible is possible when you take everything else away.

To be a comedian, you have to have some darkness behind it. I certainly draw on my past, and it helps.

Common sense is the enemy of Romance :P:P