Each time one of the medicine men dies, it's as if a library has burned down.

The rainforests hold answers to questions we have yet to ask.

Every time a shaman dies, it is as if a library burned down.

If she had learnt any lesson today it was that men were stupid, helpless creatures made needlessly cruel by their terror of showing their feelings.

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

People seem to think that folk music is people with acoustic guitars. Or punk music is people with mohawks, leather jackets.

Ethics is prescriptive and can change behavior, but usually only at the margins.

Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.

We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of policemen.

There is no pill, no drug, that can do for you what one hour of exercise can.

I like the conscious manipulation that a great director can have. When you're both complicit in the manipulation of an emotion.

The central fact of Hinduism is cow protection.

Please don't ask which I enjoy more - acting or hosting - because I love them equally.