There's no better teacher for writing than reading... Get a library card. That's the best investment.

It's important to be smart, but it's also important to be active with your intelligence. The more you sit around over-thinking things, the more trouble you get into.

God is after the truth in your worship

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.

Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.

I think that you do get a little extra jolt of confidence when you win an Emmy.

Battering down solar cells on the roofs of Wal-Marts in California. I think that will be some of the highest-return investments that anyone ever makes.

We are naïve and moralistic women. We are human beings. Who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.

My mum's always on at me to have children and blames 'that stupid stage thing you do' for me not already having a family.

Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.

It wasnt until two or three years ago that I actually learned that in the end he actually did kill someone. But that was a choice that he faced: to kill or be killed.