Fear is isolating for those that fear. And I have come to believe that fear is a cruelty to those who are feared.

Our willingness to believe the news is, in many cases, not entirely innocent.

Wealthier countries have the luxury of entertaining fears the rest of the world cannot afford.

The opportunity to think with another mind is my preferred mode of travel.

A trust-in the sense of a valuable asset placed in the care of someone to whom it does not ultimately belong-captures, more or less, my understanding of what it is to have a child.

If by years of patient suffering, God can manage to take the harshness out of my voice, then the time has been well-spent.

One of the shortcomings of our medical system is that doctors have very little time with their patients.

At some point the body offers only disappointment.

don't live to regret the things you never said

For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes.

Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.

And if Bradley Manning really did as he is accused, he is a hero, an example to us all and one of the world's foremost political prisoners.

Fathers die.You keep on loving them in any way you can.You can't hide him away in your heart.

If I know something well, it no longer makes me say "wow" even if it's really terrific, even if it's a great iteration of it, because I know it well.

The scientists split the atom; now the atom is splitting us.

I have 8-year-old twins, and I want them to grow up in a world where they can be anyone they want without any shame, without holding back, without being judged for it.

I am attracted to myths.