You can’t change the world, but you can change yourself. That adage suits consumer capitalism perfectly, since the illusion of changing ourselves is a successfully maintained through shopping.

Reducing consumption is imperative, but it's pointless to cut out meat and cars while having lots of children.

What Alpha offers, and what is attracting thousands of people, is permission, rare in secular culture, to discuss the big questions - life and death and their meaning.

A man wants to see a woman as an angel of imagination, but a woman wants to prove that she is a person.

True openness is the accompaniment of the desire to know, hence of the awareness of ignorance. To deny the possibility of knowing good and bad is to suppress true openness.

You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That's magical. He's done a great thing.

We killed 6 innocent people, launching 22, I think $3 million apiece missiles on Baghdad...that's a little bit overdoing it.

They've found a link between chemicals in shampoo and obesity. If you're eating shampoo, your weight is the least of your concerns.

Science has but one fashion-to lose nothing once gained.

You might be a redneck if you can't get married to your sweetheart because there is a law against it.

Kit Kittredge was an amazing experience because I got to go to Canada, and it was my first era film, so I got to wear the 1930s clothes, the real vintage clothes.

I don't know why I told this story. I could just as well have told another. Perhaps some other time I'll be able to tell another. Living souls, you will see how alike they are.

There is so much that people take for granted.