I've always liked working on stories that combine people who are relatable with something insane.

There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua.

I consider myself a bassist first.

Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.

We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something.

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself.

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

Mystery is more important than knowledge.

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

Oh my beloved friend! In your mirror, I see my reflection again and again.

Do young people have the moral stamina to carry through in case of economic depression? . . . The real tests of the [younger] generations have not yet come, but they are on their way!

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.

Having a Mary Poppins-themed birthday party when I was 5 - all my friends went in dresses, and I went as a chimney sweep. I was a real tomboy.

Our wills are ours, we know not how; Our wills are ours, to make them thine.

Disparagement of television is second only to watching television as an American pastime.

Bavaria is a dynamic, cosmopolitan state. Those who don't adapt fall behind.

The prophetic spirit is transferable and can be imparted.

If you've got faith and you believe in what you are living for, you can stand your ground when the Devil's at your door.

ALS does not affect cognitive process. Stephen Hawking, one of smartest people on the planet, has ALS. It rarely affects the eyes. It doesn't affect senses like hearing, taste and touch.