We spend the early years feeding our brains with information and the latter half trying not to think about it all.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me . . they’re cramming for their final exam.

I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

Some people have no idea what they're doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.

All the media and the politicians ever talk about is things that separate us, things that make us different from one another

Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.

In America, anyone can become president. That's the problem.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

There is a planet named Pluto, but we don't have one named Goofy. Goofy would be a good name for this planet. It certainly qualifies.

Behind everything that we do, there is always a Purpose. We are just not conscious to most of them.

The function of camera movement is to assist the storytelling. That's all it is. It cannot be there just to demonstrate itself.

It doesn't matter what you believe just so long as you're sincere.

Comedians tend to find a comfort zone and stay there and do lamer versions of themselves for the rest of their career.

Preaching nonviolence on principle reproduces the existing institutionalized violence.

The impulse for much writing is homesickness. You are trying to get back home, and in your writing you are invoking that home, so you are assuaging the homesickness.

Someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.

That said, I've never thought the fact that I'm a woman was important to my work.

Once you love, you cannot take it back, cannot undo it. What you felt may have changed, shifted slightly, yet still remains love.

People are responsible for their opinions, but Providence is responsible for their morals.