There are no sad days, only sad thoughts.

One is never wounded by the love one gives, only by the love one expects.

The slope contains many wonders not found at the summit.

Philosophers console themselves with explanations.

The search for first causes is the ultimate wild goose chase.

When you separate thought from life, you get philosophy.

Logical positivism is philosophy from the neck up.

The questions philosophers ask are not so much meaningless as irrelevant.

No explanation is ever as good as not having one.

The truth is what you live through while you're looking for the truth.

Never confuse a hunger for knowledge with a thirst for truth.

Even in that 'now' moment at which you feel you reach some form of "enlightenment", it will still be a 'moment'. There will still be more life afterward, and changes will still occur.

I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I'd try to reenact it.

Where as you go into playing something like Ulysses [on Black Panther], you go - I'm going to have this haircut and this cloth, you draw from different stimulus.

That's why I like my job so much, because at the end of the day they're fruits of labor that you don't pick very easily. And I love that.

An editor should have a pimp for a brother so he'd have someone to look up to.

Each day is a drive through history.

This is how God made me. You are how God made you. All God's chillun are made how God made 'em. You think God made a mistake, take it up with Him.

My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other.

Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration.

What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?