We were not designed rationally, but are products of a convoluted history.

In a perfectly designed world —one with no history— we would not have to suffer everything from hemorrhoids to cancer.

If there’s one thing I have learned it’s that if you carry on as though nothing strange is happening, it usually stops being strange

Even a hedge knight has his honor.

Love is metaphysical gravity.

The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.

I've worked with Steven Spielberg three times. I'm proud to say that I'm one of those actors that continues to get hired by the same directors.

Pleasure is the least consequential... engagement and meaning are much more important.

With extramarital courtship, the deception was prolonged where it had been ephemeral, necessary where it had been frivolous, conspiratorial where it had been lonely.

I'm still not good at changing nappies, but I do do it.

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Democracy is a process, not a static condition. It is becoming, rather than being. It can be easily lost, but is never finally won.