The opening scene in A New Hope, when you see the huge ship, it goes on, and on, and on, and on, and on... that is like a joke of awesomeness.

I strongly believe that the Second Amendment creates an individual right to possess and use guns for purposes of both hunting and self-defense.

I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.

As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.

There is no liberty without dependency. That is why we should celebrate tax day.

I'll tell you an explanation that I find commonly overrated and speculative in the extreme: the idea that things that succeed in popular culture do that because they hit the temper of the times.

There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their professional craft

Catholicism is a wide tent in terms of political and legal positions. We could have nine Catholics on the Supreme Court and a great deal of diversity toward the law.

Once we know that people are human and have some Homer Simpson in them, then there's a lot that can be done to manipulate them.

A program that saves young people produces more welfare than one that saves old people.

Somewhat more broadly, I will suggest that animals should be permitted to bring suit, with human beings as their representatives, to prevent violations of current law.

They say the mind can move mountains, I think it can move the whole god damn universe. Or else how have we travelled to other planets?

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

Enjoy your obscurity while it lasts.

Well? I've had a great birthday so far. Are you going to make it the most memorable one of my life by telling me you love me back?" ~Isaiah Coulter

I just adored working in London. It was in London where I first had the idea of making a film.

I tend over the years to have developed a certain hesitancy about believing that headlines tell the whole story.

I'm a big Johnny Cash girl. And I love singers like Laura Marling and Joanna Newsom.

I don't think that women need to smell interesting.

You are either born to be a photographer or not. The art of photography is not something you can learn in the classroom or by watching someone do it.

Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.