It is easy to be lenient at other people's expense, and call it generosity of mind.

Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don't realize it. It's very useful as a performance technique, though it can be boring to watch on its own.

I have a greater appreciation for kitchen appliances, having played one.

Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.

Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it.

Unilateral tolerance in a world of intolerance is like unilateral disarmament in a world of armed camps: it regards hope as a better basis for policy than reality.

I have never understood the liberal assumption that if there were justice in the world, there would be fewer rather than more prisoners.

We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.

Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.

Where hopes are unrealistic, fears often become exaggerated; where dreams alone are blueprints, nightmares result.

[There] is no class so dangerous as the idle educated.

Acting courageously is about knowing and making the right choices based on a deep conviction that dwarfs fear, doubt, and worry.

Don’t be afraid anymore. Not of anyone. Not of anything. Nothing. Ever again. Listen to me: not ever again.

You are a VIP, a very important person so take care with self care. If not you, who? If not now, when?

Was it really right to look the way he did? His prominent nose was altogether too immodest for his humble position in life

A story is a part of the writer's soul, told to the world.

It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has gilded it

The Common Curriculum can easily become the karaoke curriculum, where everyone just follows the bouncing ball of the script.

Everything is absurd.

Anime is not the end. Don't stop believing.

A perfect martini should be made by filling a glass with gin then waving it in the general direction of Italy.