Whenever you're playing sports with people who are better than you are, it makes you rise to the occasion.

There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua.

I consider myself a bassist first.

Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.

We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something.

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself.

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

Mystery is more important than knowledge.

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

Failures and fears are the part of the journey we call life. Don't let them stop you or derail you from your chosen path.

Something good is a frontier

Many writers do little else but sit in small rooms recalling the real world.

Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her.

I was aroused for 24 hours straight!

When reason ends, then anger begins. Therefore, anger is a sign of weakness.

I always say when you write a book, you're a 'one-man band.' Whereas, when you finish a screenplay, it's just a sketch.

I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.

Zen martini: A martini with no vermouth at all. And no gin, either.

All men, well interrogated, answer well.