Rumors chase the dead like flies, and we follow them with our prim noses. None of us are gossips, but we love listening to those who are.

Rumor is rarely more interesting than fact, but it is always more readily available.

More than 20 years on, sustained competition, informed customers and the rapid growth of new technology provide the necessary environment for substantial deregulation.

When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution.

To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.

Teasing out the way the world might look through another's eyes is what makes the creative process so fascinating and enjoyable.

We do not credit to the ideal of religious freedom when we talk as though religious belief is something of which public-spirited adults should be ashamed.

There is much depressing evidence that the religious voice is required to stay out of the public square only when it is pressed in a conservative cause.

Lots of white people think black people are stupid. They are stupid themselves for thinking so, but regulation will not make them smarter.

Every conflict plagues the peace that follows it.

Love is a gift we deliver when we would rather not.

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

The moon has been loving us with her dreamy smile for billions of years, but still she is not tired.

Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness: it invents nations where they do not exist.

No regrets. There is no time for that. Regret is boring.

Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do things to help that.

Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.

The road may bend out of sight at times, but I know what lies ahead: the faraway horses.

Reflected in the dragonfly's eye -- mountains.

The etiquette of romantic love is as elaborate as that surrounding the Emperor of China.

It can't be dead. It was alive just a minute ago.