The word "hedonistic" to me means pleasure above all else. My pleasure above all else.

I have two young children with autism. What could they have ever done to deserve that? What kind of a God allows the innocent to suffer? It's a mystery. Yet still, I believe in God.

I am tolerably ignorant about Judaism, and much of what I do know about it seems hard to swallow, because it is so grounded in legalism, and adherence to rituals.

It probably goes without saying that I enjoy the potato pancakes, delicious hams and so forth that maddeningly turn up at this time of year.

We must agree to live in this world, with all that is unfair about it, without knowing why, if we wish to have a God in our lives.

Well, because I have twin seven-year-old boys, I enjoy the gift giving stuff a great deal. We do both Hanukkah and Christmas, so it is a costly, though extremely pleasing proposition.

It's funny, but three of my early films were with Liam Neeson, before Liam Neeson was a big star.

I'd always admired Diane Keaton, but I'd never met her.

I've always thought that, in a sense, the more specific and sometimes even the smaller the world of a movie is, the more universal it is.

In general, I'm always interested in characters who have kind of extreme aspects to them, who are in some ways larger than typical people.

I always did plays in school because I thought it was fun, but it just never occurred to me as a thing to do.

We knock upon silence for an answering music.

The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation.

I actually don't trust anyone who tells me they don't like New York.

The world is now too small for anything but brotherhood.

Craft against craft makes no living.

The life you want is on the other side of the labor pains it takes to birth it.

As an atheist, I believe that all life is unspeakably precious, because it’s only here for a brief moment, a flare against the dark, and then it’s gone forever.

You can't ask someone who is not making that kind of money to go to the record store and buy an album when someone down the street has the same record with same sound quality for $5.

Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.

Technology has outstripped our knowledge of self.