The goal is not necessarily to succeed but to keep trying, to be the kind of person who has ideas and see them through..

I don't think the public here buy this idea that women and men speak different comedic languages..

Do you have any idea how much I've loved you?.

High School. Society’s bright idea to put all their aggressive, naive youth into one environment to torment and emotionally scar each other for life..

Pain is beyond reason, an obliterating giant stupidity to which all your history of jokes and nuance and ideas and caresses is nothing, simply nothin….

I'm a pluralist about perspectives on literature. There seem to me to be all sorts of illuminating ways of responding to major literary works, some o….

I think corporations should give more attention to this suffering and should wait to invest until there is a responsible government in Burma. I do no….

Most of the utopian community ideas actually are religious. They're based more on the idea of the monastery than the commune..

My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs. My hope is, that my work….

You cannot kill an idea by murdering innocent people — though you can nudge it toward suicide..

It would be foolish to give credit to Euclid for pangeometrical conceptions; the idea of geometry deifferent from the common-sense one never occurred….

"No one is doing what we're doing." This is a bummer of a lie because there are only two logical conclusions. First, no one else is doing this becaus….

The idea ... that collective society should take hold of Evil and set it down hard in its chair and make it cry seems to many of us absolutely sound.….

In parenting and teaching, let this be our aim: Not to make every idea safe for children, but every child safe for ideas..

We see facts with our eyes; we see ideas with our minds; we see ideals with our souls. Whatever we see with our souls is real and permanent and canno….

All I tell artists is, 'Do what you love. Never let anybody talk you into changing what your musical idea is just to try to get a hit, because you're….

I perceive the world in fragments. It is somewhat like being on a very fast train and getting glimpses of things in strange scales as you pass by. A ….

Keep recognizing that reality is changing and that your ideas have to change. Don’t get stuck in old ideas..

The popularity of the Internet and using it as an available resource has really changed the way chefs kind of gather information and look for inspira….

You learn more about a person from the people around that person than you do from the person themselves. We all have our own ideas of who we are that….

I love the idea of literature as a room or series of rooms that allow you to be present as it slowly unfolds itself in all its capacities..