Every new source from which man has increased his power on earth has been used to diminish the prospects of his successors.

Ministry of Disturbance, a regulated source of annoyance; a destroyer of routine; an underminer of complacency.

All that evil requires is an absence of virtue, where somebody didn't make a stand.

Interestingly, bonobo percussionists prefer a tempo of 280 beats per minute, the syllabic rate at which most humans speak.

It is important not to turn the dead into saints. Nobody can walk in the shadow of a saint.

I'm not sure I'll ever be famous by anyone's definition. I can only hope to be allowed by the audience to continue my life's work.

Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely.

I'm just not gonna let up until I know I've done absolutely everything I can for New Yorkers.

The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.

Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on.

Surgical intervention can be precisely what a trans person needs - it is also not always what a trans person needs. Either way, one should be free to determine the course of one's gendered life.

I mean, in a way, I feel that one of the reasons for learning about Darwinian evolution is as an object lesson in how not to set up our values and social lives.

Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.