The right quote can inspire people to change their ways.
I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to.
Challenge conventional wisdom. There is almost always a better way.
What happens in New York affects national policy in very significant ways.
I tend to think that knowledge is preceded by power instead of the other way around.
It's important to know when to take your time and not overspend and overdo things, of course. That's why you get things that can be dressed in a thousand different ways.
I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
War is nothing but a microcosm of peace... it shows you life in a more intense way and that's how I continue to live it... for good or bad reasons.
I'm just interested in women's friendships generally. It always seems to me, and this is just my pet theory, that women are kind of at the sharp end of capitalism one way or another. Mainly because they buy everything. In a practical sense, women buy most things. They're always comparing - to friends, to famous people, to other people. An obsessive act of comparison.
Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.
It has historically been a comfort for the bourgeois and that you can read the most extreme books and not change. You can read A Christmas Carol and not change in any way.
When the male organ of a man stands erect, two thirds of his intelect go away. And one third of his religion.
I think that when you see the trailer [on movie "300"] - my feeling is anyway and maybe I'm not objective because I live it - but I think when you see it you immediately go, 'Okay, this is another sort of way of doing this.'
We [with Neal Dodson and Corey Moosa] were constantly looking for features and looking for ways to get involved with people who were making stuff.
Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.
Other actors are not my concern, and that's their life and that's their journey. Everybody has to get to a point in their own time and their own way.
I want to be working with directors who are at the top of their game. I want to be raising the bar for myself, and to me, the best way to do that is to prove to them that I'm the best for this job.
Entertainment has this way of resetting itself.
The future and where we're going can be very terrifying, in some ways, but it's also really inspirational.
In hindsight, I must have been looking for a way to write about Jewishness that somehow managed to minimize irony and self-deprecation.
We've got to continue to find ways to honor our 25 million veterans that have served our country with such honor and distinction.
People are trying to prove things. And I probably have that. I probably do. Probably guilty of it, in a way.
I do feel like my music, in some weird way, is probably better suited for cinema than for anything else - I can't really explain, other than I think that music has been mostly inspired often by soundtracks.
In some ways, I feel like I've been such a dilettante for so many years, just picking up instruments and stretching myself so thin.
I think that there's a proliferation of music that is done entirely in the bedroom for an Internet audience, but there's no way in hell that you could actually kill off a live show, and its importance in the creation of music - it's just impossible.
