Children see magic because they look for it.

It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs.

... but to remain historically accurate, I would have had to leave out an important question that I felt needed to be addressed, which is, 'What if Jesus had known kung fu?

That's the difference between irony and sarcasm. Irony can be spontaneous, while sarcasm requires volition. You have to create sarcasm.

The Angel Gabriel disappeared once for sixty years and they found him on earth hiding in the body of a man named Miles Davis.

She hugged me and I could feel the heat rise in my face, either from shame or love, like there was a difference.

Blessed are the meek, for to them we shall say "attaboy".

The medium obscured the message.

If there was anything I learned from John the Baptist, it was that the sooner you confess a mistake, the quicker you can get on to making new and better mistakes.

Routine feeds the illusion of safety...

Nobody's perfect. Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him....

The forces of justice had finally come to Annawadi. That the beneficiaries were horses was a source of bemusement to Sunil and the road boys.

The Prophet's character was termed tremendous because his concern was for God alone.

My evenings are taken up very largely with astrology. I make horoscopic calculations in order to find a clue to the core of psychological truth.

I'm obsessed with 'Thelma and Louise,' and therefore obsessed with Callie Khouri who wrote that movie.

With every day that goes by, there will be further reductions on what's left of the season.

Isn't Timbaland a make of shoe? It's a producer? I don't know who that is. Oh well.

The point of life is to find the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality.

I'm probably proudest of being able to lift a lot of us out of the 'hood. That's the biggest thing, that I've been able to employ a lot of people and give them opportunities.

If you observe well, your own heart will answer.

You kill -- You die." That was probably the most naive thing I've ever said. The fact is -- in most cases, NOW, the way things are -- you kill -- you LIVE.