There is a misconception of tragedy with which I have been struck in review after review, and in many conversations with writers and readers alike. I….

The idea of service to humanity, putting yourself in situations where people have much less than you do, puts life in perspective..

Love is pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause, and hatred pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause..

This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate..

I don't carry notebooks and I don't consciously store ideas. I try not to think that I am a writer and I am pretty good at doing that. I don't like w….

We were raised with the idea that we had limitless chances and we got very shocked to learn that wasn't the case..

Poverty does not make people terrorists, but terrorists can exploit the frustration it creates and use it as a breeding-ground for violent ideas..

This idea that clumsy, stumbling people are real bright is ridiculous, because intelligence is related to neurologic function, and really intelligent….

We were giving advice for the single-worst idea to come forward from a group that's been rife with them, it would be this: The idea is this: Let's ma….

I really had no idea you'd be this stupid but then again you were the only person that really got me.

I think ideas only lead to change for intellectual people; and not even them. What really leads to change is experience. Life itself is the teacher..

Thank you, Jane Birkin, for providing me with infinite outfit ideas and the confidence to dress like a boy but act like a girl..

Right now, 70 percent of the people don't have computers. And where they're needed most, people don't have them. We think this will enable anyone to ….

I knew I was going to love my daughter, but I had no idea how much I would love her..

What objectivity and the study of philosophy requires is not an 'open mind,' but an active mind - a mind able and eagerly willing to examine ideas, b….

The amount of money that people spend on saving stuff, they try to feed you this idea that it's more important..

If you were to press your heart close up against somebody else’s heart eventually your hearts will start beating at the same time. And two little bab….

The idea of feeling displaced, and never feeling safe anywhere in the world, where you always feel like you're safer if you're over there, is not jus….

I don't believe in hell. The idea that a supreme being would make hell is ridiculous. An eternity of pain that results in no learning, reformation or….

Ever since I first used a computer in the early '80s, I've thought of it as a fundamentally new medium for the dissemination of ideas which can trans….

The Soviet constitution guarantees everyone a job. A pretty scary idea, I'd say..