Well, many insane people and seriously mentally ill people seem very reasonable.

Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice and they are also the most protected.

The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.

The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told.

Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying your moral is not the same as acting morally.

In the real world in which we live, you always have to choose between evils. And in choosing between evils, you have to have moral criteria for how to make those choices.

There are many levels of truth.

It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.

I was critical of race-based affirmative action early on in my career and I've changed my mind. And I've publicly acknowledged that I was wrong.

There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life.

Asymmetrical warfare is a euphemism for terrorism, just like collateral damage is a euphemism for killing innocent civilians.

You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.

I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.

She smiled as she imagined that the sun’s last rays were flames from a distant dragon.

Music is your own experience your thoughts your wisdom. If you don't live it it won't come out of your horn.

After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley.

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed.

Passion and platonic friendliness, often contrary siblings, frequently wear similar faces to hide the great distance between them.

Leonardo is the Hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for himself.

Those two principles: We're supposed to love one another and we're supposed to work together to make the experience better. That's all the religion you need, really, to make a success of this planet.