To die is one thing. How much worse to know that all the life that ever existed on this planet, and all it ever achieved, was to be obliterated?

All I know is, it is better to be the whale than the squid.

I am proudly a liberal. I am also patriotic, reasonable, pro-American, and stand for family values.

By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.

A corner is important. It provides privacy and an anchor and lets you exist independently of the room.

What every human being should do is eat a vegetarian diet based on whole foods. Period.

Of all the arts, movies are the most powerful aid to empathy, and good ones make us into better people.