To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.

I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.

Our differences in beliefs do not truly separate us, or elevate us over others. Rather, they highlight the rich tapestry that is humanity.

If you have to make laws to hurt a group of people just to prove your morals and faith, then you have no true morals or faith to prove.

You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.

We should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at the diversity of humanity.

It’s really hard to hate someone for being different when you’re too busy laughing together.

The only thing worse than human ignorance is human pride in that ignorance.

The starship Enterprise was a metaphor starship Earth, and the vision was that the strength of this starship lay in its diversity.

You know, when a man is raped you never hear about what he was wearing.

And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.

I looked at what he built, and to me it explained the stars.

Flies are the dead man's revenge.

Gray, the colour of forgetting.

We're all just big kids. That's all we are. We are artistes. We grew up wanting to be part of the fantasy of the fairy tales and the stories.

I have a rule: before I can throw anything out, I have to write down five possible uses for it. This stretches my mind and keeps it nimble - just like stretching exercises do for my body.

Intimacy requires an ability to both merge and be separate, to come together and be apart, like oscillating on a giant swing from oneness to separateness, creating a constant rhythm.

There are many world leaders who are worse than [Donald] Trump.They don't just talk about violence, they practice it on an extreme scale. And we welcome them to our country.

It's my theory that if you hear enough applause and laughter at a young enough age, you're doomed

Things don't really go that well when people get back together.

Some people are born losers; others acquire the knack gradually.