The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua.

I consider myself a bassist first.

Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.

We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something.

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself.

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

Mystery is more important than knowledge.

It's more important you learn what to make movies about than how to make movies

I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

I would rather be a conscious wrongdoer than a mindless saint.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

They say men have a sexual thought every 20 seconds. The other 19 are shame.

We are neurotically haunted today by the imminence, and by the ignominy, of failure. We know at how frightening a cost one succeeds: to fail is something too awful to think about.

Let's be very clear first off. Nothing has changed about Donald Trump's position on dealing with illegal immigration.

I don't mind talking about my two daughters, but I don't feel comfortable denying them their privacy.

I see this [biodiesel] as a way for the farmer to grow fuel and food and put him back in business again

See, I will always shop, and that's sort of a problem. Clothes are always exploding out of my closet!