Mere absurdity has never prevented the triumph of bad ideas, if they accord with easily aroused fantasies of an existence freed of human limitations.

Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don't realize it. It's very useful as a performance technique, though it can be boring to watch on its own.

I have a greater appreciation for kitchen appliances, having played one.

It is easy to be lenient at other people's expense, and call it generosity of mind.

Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.

Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it.

Unilateral tolerance in a world of intolerance is like unilateral disarmament in a world of armed camps: it regards hope as a better basis for policy than reality.

I have never understood the liberal assumption that if there were justice in the world, there would be fewer rather than more prisoners.

We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.

Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.

Where hopes are unrealistic, fears often become exaggerated; where dreams alone are blueprints, nightmares result.

You're my rain, Eric. You've been keeping me safe before I even knew you.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

I mean, it takes a large entourage to put on a tour. You can't have 'em sittin' around.

If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.

This is what Krishna says in the Bhagavad-Gita - Karma Yoga. If you can't avoid action, you might as well act.

What you see is more important than what you know.

The honor of a country depends much more on removing its faults than on boasting of its qualities.

Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation.

Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.

The nineties, ecstatic decade!