Conversation doesn’t have to lead to consensus about anything especially not values; it’s enough that it helps people get used to one another

In life, the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure out what game you're playing

A value is like a fax machine: it’s not much use if you’re the only one who has one.

If someone hates you, they won't ask you for things.

Possibly, there was something to be said for the intellectual discipline of second-guessing what you thought was true.

The biggest thing in today's sorrow is the memory of yesterday's joy.

Dangling in space I realised I could always slip out of the harness. I looked forward to the peace of the great release.

We have not yet made violence against women abnormal, extraordinary, unacceptable. We have not yet come to see it as a pathological issue.

Life's miseries fall disproportionately on children.

We have to be very careful about what we say out there to the masses in the entertainment industry because people are listening to every word, and they take it to heart.

Wonder Woman is lame. She flies around in an invisible jet, but she's not invisible. I don't get it.

His eyes were rolling in their sockets, and his face had taken on the colour and expression of a devout tomato. I could see he loved like a thousand bricks.

Religion was made to order to "save the world," to use a phrase Christians use so much, but we really haven't been doing a good job of it for centuries. It's heartbreaking really.

Sanctions are not diplomacy. They are a precursor to war and an embarrassment to a country that pays lip service to free trade.

Lasorda's standard reply when some new kid would ask directions to the whirlpool was to tell him to stick his foot in the toilet and flush it.