Over the years, I've loved being on stage with an orchestra, waving my hands around..

Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease..

In the modern view, unbridled personal freedom is the only good to be pursued; any obstacle to it is a problem to be overcome..

The real and most pressing question raised by any social problem is: "How do I appear concerned and compassionate to all my friends, colleagues, and ….

In a democratic age, only the behavior of the authorities is subject to public criticism; that of the people themselves, never..

We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life..

We have people being a little uncomfortable in their life on Earth with finances and so on, so Science Fantasy or Science Fiction allows people to th….

Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it..

Blanket compassion will shift the distribution decisively towards the manipulative end of the spectrum, and may paradoxically decrease the compassion….

Nationalism is fraught with dangers, of course, but so is the blind refusal to recognize that attachment to one's own culture, traditions, and histor….

Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence.

It is strange, is it not, how the more strenuously we deny the importance of race in human affairs, the more obsessed with it and the touchier on the….

Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don't realize it. It's very useful as a performance technique, though it can be boring to wat….

The nearer emotional life approaches to hysteria, to continual outward show, the less genuine it becomes. Feeling becomes equated with vehemence of e….

I have a greater appreciation for kitchen appliances, having played one..

For intellectuals, everyone's mind is closed but their own..

On a film set everyone is very cool. Well, blase really..

It is hard to oppose an ideology with a tradition..

Cruelty is like hope: it springs eternal..

I don't do that many appearances at conventions. I like to keep them special for me. And for the fans, I hope..

Mediocrity triumphs because it presents itself as democratic and because it is dull, and so for many does not seem worth struggling against..