My parents encouraged thought. You'll get through life better if you learn how to think.

When we make mistakes, say, I'm blessed that I have an opportunity to learn from this.

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.

Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point.

Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?

Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling.

To be always in a state of wonder is a kind of sensitivity that can sometimes be an extraordinary blessing and sometimes a real pain.

I am selfish. I reach for the world I want to live in. And I believe in leaving our best we can do to our children

Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a lullaby is intended to put a child to sleep in a sweet way.

You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it.

You can't just leave out one part; the bread won't rise if the yeast isn't there.

Great losses are great lessons.

Desire blazed, passion raged.

Do not ignore your best friend because some other friend hurt you.

Surrender is a powerful force.

If I can't play for big money, I play for a little money. And if I can't play for a little money, I stay in bed that day.

We have only two sources of information about the character of the people around us: we judge them by what they do and by what they say (particularly the first).

The greatest strategy is doomed if it's implemented badly.

Education, the last hope of the liberal in all periods.

Homosexuals are riding high in the media.

I have two daughters, and we live here in Manhattan, and having gone through the Manhattan kindergarten application process, nothing will ever rival the stress of that.