For some of the large indignities of life, the best remedy is direct action. For the small indignities, the best remedy is a Charlie Chaplin movie. The hard part is knowing the difference.

History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.

In the horrifying calculus of self-deception, the greater the pain we inflict on others, the greater the need to justify it to maintain our feelings of decency and self-worth.

Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification.

As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence.

Depression is not 'anger turned inward'; if anything, anger is depression turned outward. Follow the trail of anger inward, and there you will find the small, still voice of pain.

Doubt is not the enemy of justice; overconfidence is.

Baseball lasts as long as it takes. Like life, like love, baseball exists in real time.

Science is a form of arrogance control.

The second-sweetest set of three words in English is 'I don't know.'

When it comes to food, there are two large categories of eaters, those who do not worry about what they eat but should, and those who do worry about what they eat but should not.

We gradually accepted each other with our strengths and weaknesses. And now, I think, we have started to enjoy our differences more

Enjoy the ride of life. It is irreplaceable.

The world may argue against a creed, but it cannot argue against changed lives.

We must fight our way to victory on a sea of blood and a horizon of fire.

I think the media is a real demon.

If anything, it was a very egotistical thing because I wanted to move people. I wanted to tell a story and move people.

Love is the doorway through which the human soul passes from selfishness to service.

I grew up in the golden age of Flash Gordon and sci-fi.

I realize after spending so long working with images, semiotic deconstruction and redeployment becomes second nature. We all speak with images. I guess I look at everything sideways nowadays.

I can't say I feel influenced by today's guitar players.