Life is not a series of pathetic, meaningles actions. Some of them are so far from pathetic, so far from meaningless as to be beyond reason, maybe beyond forgiveness.

Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.

. . . crazy world or maybe it's just the view we have of it, looking through a crack in the door, never being able to see the whole room, the whole picture.

People use people according to their own needs. Or don't use them. When a primary need is one of safety.

People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.

Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history.

In the U.S. and Canada, 50% of the young leadership of all the organizations like AIPAC and Hillel are Birthright alumni.

No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way.

those who attack always do so with greater fervor than those who defend.

I write to music, so every script I have has its own playlist. Music just opens me up to the emotions that I'm writing.

There shouldn't be a separation of any religion in any way. Unfortunately, through the centuries there have been problems from the "My God is better than your God" mentality.

Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.

It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.

One defends when his strength is inadequate, he attacks when it is abundant.

Only a fool does not look to explain his mistakes.