...a metaphor that works in one society may seem preposterous in another.

Understanding a metaphor is like deciphering a code or unraveling a riddle.

Fine doesn't mean fine! The scale goes: great, good, okay, not okay, I hate you, fine.

No doubt metaphors are dangerous- and perhaps especially so in philosophy. But a prohibition against their use would be a willful and harmful restriction upon our powers of inquiry.

... a result once generally accepted by mathematicians is seldom retracted, and then only with great pangs. The Nature of Mathematics

If your children know who God is they will know who they are, regardless of where you or they call home.

I've never met anyone who has said, "My goal is to make America mediocre." That's a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy.

As long as a man is alive and out of hell, he cannot have any cause to complain.

He is an interesting player - short back legs.

Time marches on and I don't care how people watch my movies as long as they see them. I don't care if they're on their phone.

Everything I'm not makes me everything I am

Almost all negative moods are missing one key element - calm. By learning calm, you learn to deal with difficult areas. Calm allows us to achieve what we want, without being overwhelmed by anxiety.

I have spent the last five months obsessively working on Outlaw.

The gift of the Holy Ghost...quicken s all the intellectual faculties.

Louie brought his new girlfriend over, and the nicest thing I can say about her is all her tattoos are spelled correctly.