Putting lifestyle first is how you find a job-- not a calling.

Human knowledge is never contained in just one person.

What makes human life meaningful? I still felt literature provided the best account of the life of the mind, while neuroscience laid down the most elegant rules of the brain.

Even if you are perfect the World isn't.

Literature not only illuminated another's experience, it provided, I believed, the richest material for moral reflection

Putting lifestyle first is how you find a job- not a calling.

A word meant something only between people, and life’s meaning, its virtue, had something to do with the depth of the relationships we form.

People often ask if it was calling. My answer always is yes.

[H]e found poetry more comforting than Scripture—and his ability to forge from his life a cogent, powerful tale of living with death.

I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality.

No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.

I believe at the end of my career I'll be retired into the recurring character hall of fame.

I'm getting a little tired of politicians trying to prove how 'moderate' and 'centrist' they are by taking more of my money and freedom. Where's this center - somewhere between Lenin and Stalin?

No human testimony can have such force as to prove a miracle, and make it a just foundation for any such system of religion

I left school with no qualifications, but I was doing theatre and film work and thought that was the best thing since sliced bread.

Jim Crow is alive and it's dressed in a Brooks Brothers suit, my friend, instead of a white robe.

Then there was a man who said, 'I never knew what real happiness was until I got married; by then it was too late'

When I cut myself I feel so much better. All the little things that might have been annoying me suddenly seem so trivial, because I'm concentrating on the pain

I always separate myself from reviews, but tweets and Instagram comments, they go directly to my phone. It's hard to keep up.