My wife and I just prefer Seattle. It's a beautiful city. Great setting. You open your front door in the morning and the air smells like pine and the sea, as opposed to bus exhaust.

Stem cell research can revolutionize medicine, more than anything since antibiotics.

We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved.

I couldn't join a party that, frankly, tolerates members who are bigots for one thing, homophobes, racists.

I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.

Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.

The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.

You cannot be against embryonic stem cell research and be intellectually and therefore morally consistent, if you're not also against in vitro fertilization.

When you hear somebody justifying a war by citing the Almighty, I get a little worried, frankly.

I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline.

People who believe they are acting with the mandate of God, who see others who don't share their beliefs as inferior in the eyes of God, make dangerous leaders. Just ask Osama Bin Laden.

Those who fight against God's people are fighting against God, and fighters against God will not prevail.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

Hope but not enthusiasm is the proper state for the writer.

One of my biggest goals, especially with writing YA novels, is just to have people enjoy reading.

I wouldn't want to enter into a relationship in which there was this inhibiting factor that said it can never be forever.

It's quite hard not to cringe at your own music; you're always a bit annoyed at some parts of it.

All of us can create if we allow ourselves to.

I am an atheist. I don't think there's anything divine. Beautiful, impressive, awe-inspiring - sure, but not divine.

To use the law of attraction to your advantage, make it a habitual way of being, not just a one-time event.

The thought of death sits easy on the man Who has been born and dies among the mountains.