The truth is, there are not two kinds of people. There's only one: the kind that loves to divide up into gangs who hate each other's guts.

This is one reason people need to believe in God—because we want someone to know us, truly, all the way through, even the worst of us.

Often you don’t know whether you’re the hero of a romantic comedy or the villain on a Lifetime special until the restraining order arrives.

I wish I could recommend the experience of not being killed to everyone.

People are most vociferously opposed to those forces they have to resist more fiercely within themselves.

Let me propose that if your beliefs or convictions matter more to you than people—if they require you to act as though you were a worse person than you are—you may have lost perspective.

If you manage to make it to some semblance of adulthood, just showing up turns out to be one of the kindest, most selfless things you can do for someone.

What dooms our best efforts to cultivate empathy and compassion is always, of course, other people.

Let me propose that if your beliefs or convictions matter more to you than people - if they require you to act as though you were a worse person than you are - you may have lost perspective.

The police, finding a corpse with twenty-eight stab wounds in a bathtub, suspected foul play.

It’s easy to demonstrate how progressive and open-minded and loyal you are when it costs you nothing.

Balance: a dance with how and when.

There is satiety in all things in sleep and love-making in the loveliness of singing and the innocent dance.

I think I'll be going to Heaven, because I had good intentions. But my actions are another thing.

The most important piece of equipment after the camera is a good pair of shoes.

The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it.

Societies get what they deserve, not what they expect.

I used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or a means of transportation, or an implement for the accomplishment of my will.

Is there a tumor in your humor?

Ideally, I'd prefer never having to be in a test-screening environment. Some famous director said "The group is smart, the individuals are stupid," about the experience of a test screening.

I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!