Since there is no telling in advance where it may lead, reflection can be seen as dangerous .

Myself, I have never seen a bumper sticker saying " Hate if you Love Jesus ", but I sometimes wonder why not. It would be a good slogan for the religious Right.

Chance is as relentless as necessity.

The absolutist trumpets his plain vision; the relativist sees only someone who is unaware of his own spectacles.

A god that created the world and then walked off the site leaving it to its own devices is not a fit object of worship, nor a source of moral authority.

Nobody ever inferred from the multiple infirmities of Windows that Bill Gates was infinitely benevolent, omniscient, and able to fix everything.

Perhaps to restore human freedom we should deny determinism ?

The absolutist takes himself to read nature in her very own language, but the relativist insists that nature does not speak, and we hear only what we have elected to hear.

It can seem an amazing fact that laws of nature keep on holding, that the frame of nature does not fall apart.

The word " philosophy " carries unfortunate connotations: impractical, unworldly, weird.

The fantasist in whom the reality barrier has broken down is unreliable, believing things when he should not, and telling things as true when they are not.

Obama can't change his cool disposition, though it would be nice if he lost the vaguely grudging air he gives off that problems of management get in the way of ideas.

Freedom is incomplete without social justice.

I am never needlessly obscure - I am needfully obscure, when I am obscure.

I'm disappointed by bands left and right, every day.

We need to build bridges between the LGBT community and the larger immigrant community. In the end, the bigger the tent we build, the more successful we'll be.

Giggle potential is everywhere; we just need to slow down long enough to see it.

Hollywood was a good influence because I was madly in love with films, and the films had a direct influence on me.

If I did that, I'd be sticking my head in a moose.

There's no substitute for a great love who says, 'No matter what's wrong with you, you're welcome at this table.'

When you value your crew, they look after you.