Morality which is no particular socity's morality is to be found nowhere.

I can only answer the question ‘What am I to do?’ if I can answer the prior question ‘Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?’

Christians have given atheists less and less in which to disbelieve

It is only by participation in a rational, practice-based community that one becomes rational.

Truth has been displaced as a value and replaced by psychological effectiveness.

At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given.

[M]odern society is indeed often, at least in surface appearance, nothing but a collection of strangers, each pursuing his or her own interests under minimal constraints.

The way to bring out the best in the British people is to attack them.

What this brings out is that modern politics cannot be a matter of genuine moral consensus. And it is not. Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.

Facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth century invention.

Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?

My only armor is my belief that life has meaning...

The best way for you to grow is to sack yourself.

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

I think my parents saw that acting ultimately made me happy, even though it was a rough ride for a little bit. There wasn't a ton of pushback about it.

I used to love to call L.A. when I lived in New York... Is that the Big One I hear in the background? Bye, you lizard scum! Bye!

My goal was for acting to become my main income. I would say to myself, 'I'm good enough'. That became my mantra.

Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.

Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.

Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.