I’ve become less conservative since the Republican Party started becoming goofy.

Fact is often stranger than fiction because most writers of fiction try to make their stories plausible.

A diversity of approaches is necessary if there is to be a good chance of hitting on one that works. Progress is a social undertaking & achievement, because people see things differently

Because reputation lags achievement, we should expect people to reach the zenith of their reputation well past the zenith of their productive output

We have a tendency to assume people are a unity, and thus good people all good, etc. But the fact that Hitler was good to dogs and children isn't a paradox.

In a religiously uniform culture, it is natural for people to take for granted the truth of the prevailing religion and its associated metaphysical propositions.

Death is not such a bad thing. What would be a bad thing would be living without challenges. Without knowing defeat, we cannot know what victory is. There is no life without death.

obsession either boosts up feeling orjust blow it off . . .

When Jill woke next morning and found herself in a cave, she thought for one horrid moment that she was back in the Underworld.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

I love the new technology. New things give you a reason to want to go to the studio. New challenges mean you have to keep up, you know?

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.

I used to talk about my personal life all the time. It's the most fun thing to talk about, the people in my life are hurt.

There are people who, like new songs, are in vogue only for a time.

Desire, and the ways in which men perform their masculinity and feel as if they can take up space and say anything about your body, have always been a dangerous space for me.

Look out for number one and try not to step in number two.