Like many others, I grew up in an age that preached liberty and built slave camps.

Behind every successful innovation, was a presentation in a closed room

Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.

If any thing can be predicated as universally true of uncultivated man, it is that he will not labour beyond what is absolutely necessary to maintain his existence.

I always wanted to be a Californian. In my wildest dreams, I always liked California - it's the place where oranges grows on trees! Fruit just falls off the trees.

I use the cigar for timing purposes. If I tell a joke, I smoke as long as they laugh and when they stop laughing I take the cigar out of my mouth and start my next joke.

As strange as it may sound, our experience of a Chagall painting actually depends to some extent on whether our language has a word for blue.

Once you are in communion with God, you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear other people in whom God has also found a dwelling place.

The internet has made possible a frightening practice of threats and intimidation - threats of unspeakable violence and death.

This man has conquered the world! What have you done?" The philosopher replied without an instant's hesitation, "I have conquered the need to conquer the world.

Human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one can say when it will begin to wane and when it will fade away.