Fate drives cruel bargains. We must always release one thing before we can grasp something else.

This is what progress does, you know. Each step into the future makes us ever so much grander and more demanding and thus ever so slightly less human.

You fail because you fear. Be bold. Be fearless.

Writers should be applauded for their ability to make things up.

If I had a religious belief, I would want it to be as strong as my belief in the theater.

I just want to make people laugh, and I want to do that the best way possible.

All any child needs is the protection of loving parents and an alternative source of information.

But I - and I just think it's very - one of the problems of defending the extraordinary principle of freedom of speech is that you have to defend freedom of speech for people like that too.

There is a difference between feeding someone and eating dinner with them. If every Christian at home just made room for the stranger we would end homelessness overnight.

I want to hear from the creature who isn't blessed with unbelievable good looks and incredible genes. I want to hear from the geek girl, the forgotten girl, the invisible girl and the miserable girl.

I'm very wary of news on television.

The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad.