There's only one thing to say to the censors: Shut up.

...racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.

Adopted. Big Deal; so was Superman

Something about the joy and pain of that moment, something about the excruciating contrast, made me feel that no matter what happens now, my life has been worth it. What a ride.

I think when you’re dying you start looking for important things in the corners. You can’t let anything that seems even semi-important pass, because it passes forever. Things take on meaning.

You put yourself out there in the truest way you can and hope others do the same. You'll connect or you won't, but you did what you could.

I believe there was a big bang and that because of that we are all connected into infinity, and I know very little having to do with human beings that doesn't also have to do with connection.

I have made a career of creating characters who fight school authority and chomp at the bit to get out into the 'real' world and live their lives, mostly because that's the kind of teenager I was.

I'd rather be a flash than a slowly burning ember.

But the truth doesn't need to be known, or believed, to be true.

Nothing exists without its opposite.

Books appear to be the most immediate instruments of speculative delight.

The first concern of any dictatorship is, consequently, to subjugate both labor and culture.

Golf is a spiritual game. It's like Zen. You have to let your mind take over.

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.

You know, if I tell the press that I like long blonde hair, the next day there will be girls with long hair wigs outside waiting for me.

Are people angry with me? Sure, anything you do in your life, people are going to be angry at you.

Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.

Of course, any job is scary, but you tackle the challenges head on and hope for the best.

In the last James Bond movie, the villain was a culture captain, a tycoon of culture, a Murdoch figure. It's not as if people don't know what is going on.

I'm interested in how small the world really is, and this notion that what happens in one place affects someone else.