No great deed, private or public, has ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.

The Internet is like closing time at a blue-collar bar in Boston. Everyone’s drunk and ugly and they’re going to pass out in a few minutes.

Incorruptibility by money is the old story... Now it's incorruptibility by media.

There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.

There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people.

A thoughtless citizen of a democracy is a delinquent citizen of a democracy.

American Jews, like Americans, have a very consumerist attitude toward their identity: they pick and choose the bits of this and that they like.

The velocity and volume on the Web are so great that nothing is forgotten and nothing is remembered.

I hear it said of somebody that he is leading a double life. I think to myself: Just two?

Use the new technologies for the old purposes.

I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.

Contentment - being happy while doing something - and complacency - being happy while doing nothing - are entirely different.

People sometimes say the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal.

The trouble with many religions, accused of wishful thinking, is that they are not wishful enough. They show a deplorable lack of imagination.

Wherever I go, I run into myself.

Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.

A madness of tender caressing seized her. She purred as a tiger might have done, while she undulated like a snake.

One of my favorite things being on movies is that when you're working, it's the best thing that's ever happened, and then in the downtime, you socialize and go to dinner.

I have always had a strong interest in history and finding out about the past can be remarkably helpful with working out the future, too.

You can't fool all the people, not even most of the time. And people, once unfooled, talk about the experience.

Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness.