To the extent that tenure supports academic freedom, I support tenure. I want no person or system to have any power, real or apparent, to chill academic freedom.

No state legislature ever built a great university.

We Americans have the great gifts of freedom and democracy, but it has been our education system that has fulfilled the promise of democracy.

Maybe it takes tragedy to create paradise.

That's the way I work. I get it all plotted in my mind, and then I write it down.

It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not.

The expectation of happiness creates a lot of unhappiness.

How do you know, right now, that you are aware of being aware, or conscious?

It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.

The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends.

We will never have more affection or passion for God than we understand He has for us. We will never be more committed to God than our understanding of His commitment to us.

If you can walk, you can run.

I really love the process, with stage, of rehearsal, you get to create a character, and you have a beginning, a middle, and an end of story. And in television, you don't.