The big elephant sitting in the corner is that George W. Bush is simply unqualified for the job. What's his accomplishment? That he's no longer an obnoxious drunk?

Stem cell research can revolutionize medicine, more than anything since antibiotics.

We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved.

I couldn't join a party that, frankly, tolerates members who are bigots for one thing, homophobes, racists.

I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.

Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.

The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.

You cannot be against embryonic stem cell research and be intellectually and therefore morally consistent, if you're not also against in vitro fertilization.

When you hear somebody justifying a war by citing the Almighty, I get a little worried, frankly.

I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline.

My wife and I just prefer Seattle. It's a beautiful city. Great setting. You open your front door in the morning and the air smells like pine and the sea, as opposed to bus exhaust.

I’ve always been driven, unfortunately not always in the right direction.

A single test which proves some piece of theory wrong is more valuable than a hundred tests showing that idea might be true.

He who runs away from a fearful calamity, a foreign invasion, a terrible famine, and the companionship of wicked men is safe.

Breakups hurt like a motherf*#ker, but they are not the end of the world. The pain is temporary, and if handled properly, they can even be life-changing.

At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love.

The greatest weapon of mass destruction is corporate economic globalization.

I played T-Mac. I cooked him. Roasted him. Wasn't even close.

On Jose Gonzalez changing his name to Jose Uribe: 'He was definitely the player to be named later.'

Beached under the spumy blooms, we lie Sea-sick and fever-dry.

Well, I had an after hours club in Vancouver and when any of the Motown acts would call.