When Maimonides says that the Messiah will come but that 'he may tarry, ' we see the origin of every Jewish shrug from Spinoza to Woody Allen.

The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.

I want to urge you very strongly to travel as much as you can, and to evolve yourself as an internationalist. It's as important a part of your education as a radical as the reading of any book.

The forces of piety have always and everywhere been the sworn enemy of the open mind and the open book.

Thus in order to be a "radical" one must be open to the possibility that one's own core assumptions are misconceived.

Try your hardest to combat atrophy and routine. To question The Obvious and the given is an essential element of the maxim 'de omnius dubitandum' [All is to be doubted].

Ξέρω: κηρύγματα καὶ ρητορεῖες πάλι, θὰ πεῖς.Ἔ ναὶ λοιπόν! Κηρύγματα καὶ ρητορεῖες.Σὰν πρόκες πρέπει νὰ καρφώνονται οἱ λέξειςΝὰ μὴν τὶς παίρνει ὁ ἄνεμος.

Traveling light gives me a way to set down what would otherwise be the baggage of someone else' decision to cling to a well-worn path.

I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.

I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.

Can I smoke now without someone taking my picture?

At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life. The choice is too often not a free one.

I'd love to do an action movie. Something with lots of stunts. Anything fast and dangerous and involving guns.

Partitioning Iraq is inevitable, as shown by history.

A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward; to reset oneself by an inner compass.

Man, if I was back home, I'd be swinging with two chicks on my arms.