Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.

Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don't realize it. It's very useful as a performance technique, though it can be boring to watch on its own.

I have a greater appreciation for kitchen appliances, having played one.

It is easy to be lenient at other people's expense, and call it generosity of mind.

Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.

Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it.

Unilateral tolerance in a world of intolerance is like unilateral disarmament in a world of armed camps: it regards hope as a better basis for policy than reality.

I have never understood the liberal assumption that if there were justice in the world, there would be fewer rather than more prisoners.

We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.

Where hopes are unrealistic, fears often become exaggerated; where dreams alone are blueprints, nightmares result.

[There] is no class so dangerous as the idle educated.

Sheep are always looking for a new shepherd when the terrain gets rocky.

I had not asked to be born. Only to be loved.

Republican presidents talk about freedom. Democratic presidents talk about equality.

The most interesting nerds are the ones who take offense to being called nerds.

You just can't help topping your own levels of crazy,can you?

Life is one long struggle in the dark.

I wake up some mornings hating me too.

Anxiety projection can and does occur - in myth, in music, in fiction, and in the doctor's office too. That doesn't make it the basis of everything.

We have no idea what's natural and what's man made. [...] There is no fingerprint of human-caused warming.

When your heart is shattered into a million pieces, all you can do is try to keep holding on. You breathe. You try to fall asleep. You try to not think about him.