The deviant and the conformist...are creatures of the same culture, inventions of the same imagination.

Plato offers the amazing idea that contemplation of the way things really are is, in itself, a purifying process that can bring human beings into the only divinity there is.

I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.

He’s more how Satan would look if he needed to seduce you into drowning a baby.

I was a man who thrived on solitude

A terrorist attack is like a wasp sting. It may be very painful, but it does not kill the host. It only makes the host more determined to find the nest and destroy it.

I've never met a person I've couldn't call a beauty.

The persistent failures of controlled, double-blind experiments to support the claims of parapsychology suggest that what's going on is nonsense rather than sixth sense.

Japan is our rival, not our enemy. Japan is a competitor... Bashing a Toyota won't make a better car.

Marnie was ahead of its time. People didn't talk about childhood and its effects on adult life. It was taboo to discuss sexuality and psychology and to put all that into a film was shocking.

I think we need to push harder, we the Democrats, because it's an open door for the Republicans - prosperity centers.