The lessons we learn, we must learn again and again.

Simplicity is the pursuit of the essential.

Just when you think you're playing your cards right, God shuffles the deck.

Hitting your head against a wall is not the fastest way to move it.

John Adams was a farmer, Abraham Lincoln a small town lawyer. Plato and Socrates were teachers. Jesus was a carpenter. To equate wisdom and judgement with occupation is at best insulting.

The opposite of simplicity is not complexity, but fragmentation and alienation.

I think people do sci-fi a huge disservice by lumping it as some sort of bizarre subculture genre when I think everybody's lives are impacted by sci-fi at some point.

If a person is dying of cancer, you do not say, 'You can't turn back the clock.' You try to heal the person, no matter how painful the process.

The defenders of the status quo often masquerade as the preservers of harmony.

We are all riding on the same bus.

Tell me something I can dance to.

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Thanks. Seriously, you must have better things to do with your life than waste it on the hopeless?''I've already learned Parseltongue. What else is there?''Elvish.

No, no, no, I've just grown up too much to be hurt by what people's opinion of my love life is.

Mortal beauty stings while it delights.

At every moment, you have the opportunity to crap out. The world will always tell you to play it safe and just be dead.

I'd love to make a second film, I'd love to make a third, and I'd love to have a long career doing this.

Barack Obama was a black man that lived on the South Side of Chicago, who had his share of troubles catching cabs.

Fools, your reward is neither here nor there.

When we're discussing who to invite to a dinner party, my wife Chaz and I sometimes use the shorthand, 'good value for money,' which indicates guests expected to be entertaining.