There's this Tea Party wing, the Republican Party with the Chamber of commerce folks and all of those other people. They are not anti-immigration, by the way.

I don't begrudge rich people running for office. God knows that FDR and JFK both came from very wealthy families but I think did more to help impoverished Americans than anybody else.

The benefits kids get from watching "Sesame Street" can be as powerful as the ones children get from preschool.

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.

Ask your wife for forgiveness, even when you’re right.

We didn't name Birdie before she was born. When she came out I said, 'I think we gotta go with Birdie, I think that's her name.'

That was an instance where I was given a word to define my confusing experience, and I'm just like, "nah."

Civilisation has, indeed, become a slaughtering-car crowned by a grinning effigy of Comfort, before which man blindly and voluntarily hurls himself in his own ignorance.

If you want an honest dialogue, you can't criticize someone for what they say. You can't teach someone to think in a certain way.

Chess programs are our enemies, they destroy the romance of chess. They take away the beauty of the game. Everything can be calculated.

Do not let the body be dragged along by mind nor the mind be dragged along by the body

I love food too much - not because I'm fat but because it's so consumptionistic, etc.

You knew the truth all along, Colie. That's all matters. You knew.