Shakespeare is the Joss Whedon of his generation.

I think we're all fascinated and a little mystified by how the brain works. One of the most mysterious of the physical sciences is neurological science.

Sometimes time constraints bring out something cool.

[David Boreanaz]'s got a very, very cute little giggle.

Life is not just one dark moment after another.

In the same way that Shakespeare was writing very much for his time, he was also unearthing observations that would last for generations beyond him.

Anybody who believes and experiences their life and doesn't have shades of gray in it doesn't live where I live and is simply not in touch with the reality of the human condition.

You learn a lot about a person when you work together.

The inherent corruption of man can often bring down the best system.

The American story is a story of great moments and dreadful moments.

Honestly, one-hour drama is the hardest format there is. I think it's harder than movies, and it's harder than half-hour comedy.

Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)

I mean, what is music anyway? It's a form of communication - at least for me it is. And that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

I wish that the act of publishing a book was less of a nerve-wracking experience.

We all know that crap is king, give us dirty laundry.

I have always paid careful attention to social and economic conflicts, to the dialectic - if we can call it that - between high and low. Maybe it's because I was not born or brought up in affluence.

I'm not sure who's right, who's wrong, but it doesn't matter. Sometimes you just have to do what you're told. That's who we are!

Music begins and ends in the air - it's got to be shared.

I never loved a man as far as I could pitch my shoe.

Intellect does not attain its full force unless it attacks power.

It's possible for the heavyweight champion of the world to be with one woman.