On movies like Star Trek and Star Wars, you have so much that will be created or extended digitally, and it's a slippery slope where you can get lost in a world of synthetic.

There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua.

I consider myself a bassist first.

Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.

We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something.

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself.

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

Mystery is more important than knowledge.

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.

Ignorance is bliss up to the point that it kills you.

15 minutes a day! Give me just this and I'll prove I can make you a new man.

Even in my most inflamed moment I never supported a racist mass murderer.

Dare we face the question of just how much of the darkness around us is of our own making?

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

I don't do meditation. That's not for me. It's not my thing.

As we say in the sewer, time and tide wait for no man.

Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times.

Sagebrush is a very fair fuel, but as a vegetable it is a distinguished failure. Nothing can abide the taste of it but the jackass and his illegitimate child the mule.