Obsoletes and absolutes are the stock in trade of religions that place their faith in an 'unchanging' god while faced with the reality of an ever-changing world.

Creativity is an amazing human characteristic, which is more connected with curiosity than with knowledge.

Sir, I had rather be right than to be President.

I've always written. I'm from an older generation of programmers [who] did not come out of engineering. [A]ll sorts of people were drawn in from the social sciences and humanities.

Islam is not a religion, but an imperialist ideology like communism or fascism.

No matter how you have searched, there will always be one teaspoon left at the bottom of the washing-up water.

I'm not a kiss-and-teller. I never named names.

Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.

If I could go back to my younger self, I'd be like, "Not everything's permanent."

Generosity is, by definition, disinterested.

To be an Indian in modern American society is in a very real sense to be unreal and ahistorical.