To my great surprise and pleasure, I have had dinner with most of the people living with whom I would like to have dinner.

When we make mistakes, say, I'm blessed that I have an opportunity to learn from this.

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.

Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point.

Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?

Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling.

To be always in a state of wonder is a kind of sensitivity that can sometimes be an extraordinary blessing and sometimes a real pain.

I am selfish. I reach for the world I want to live in. And I believe in leaving our best we can do to our children

Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a lullaby is intended to put a child to sleep in a sweet way.

You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it.

You can't just leave out one part; the bread won't rise if the yeast isn't there.

In certain ways, I'm not very different than I was when I was a teenager.

Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark.

What kind of moron would go to work for half the amount of money, when they could sit at home and collect what's written in a contract?

Nationalism as we know it, is the result of a form of state-sponsored branding.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the dog's owner - and the distance you are from your car.

Even when the universe made it quite clear to me that I was mistaken in my certainties ... I did not break. The shattering of my sureties did not shatter me.

My creed of nonviolence does not favour the punishment of thieves and dacoits and even murderers.

It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.

The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?

I'm a New Yorker, and I jaywalk with the best of them.