To me, a mark of maturity is realizing that nobody runs the world. Fat cat politicians and secret conspiracies don't control our lives. In reality, the world is much more complex than that.

Experience as much as you can and absorb a lot of reality. Otherwise, your writing will have the force of a Wiffle ball.

If there's reason for hope, it lies in man's occasional binges of cooperation. To save our planet, we'll need that kind of heroic effort, in which all types of people join forces for the common good

I have nothing but respect for the purist who won't work for the pharaoh. But I'm not that strong.

There's a built-up tension in religion, and if you can release it, you'll get a huge and satisfying laugh.

Every joke can't be dazzling. And if you think you spotted an inconsistency, you did!

I was brought up Catholic and, of course, I strayed and repudiated it. That's a painful thing to go through, because you have to look back and realize that you wasted a gigantic chunk of your life.

I have a deep suspicion of social institutions and tradition in general.

There's absolutely no way that something I do on my own is going to be seen in Malaysia.

I resisted parenthood for a long, long time. But having a daughter has given me a sense of hopefulness that I didn't have before.

Clever is the eunuch version of funny.

Law will take over because law always carries with it a sense of security and manipulative power.

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

She's the princess. She commanded and I obeyed!"-Loki "You don't obey a suicide mission!"-Finn

The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.

Defect in one's limb ruins a man.

Let there be cultivated an awareness in every member's heart of his own potential for bringing others to a knowledge of the truth. Let him work at it. Let him pray with great earnestness about it

A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination.

I like triples-when I hit a ball in the gap, all I think about is a triple.

The world acquires value only through its extremes and endures only through moderation; extremists make the world great, the moderates give it stability.

If you love someone and you choose to spend the rest of your life with that person, that's your partner in every way.