Madame Bovary and a flying carpet, they are both untrue in the same way. Somebody made them up.

If you have children you worry about the world you're leaving them.

One of the characteristics of mudslinging is that mud sticks if it's thrown with enough force for long enough.

Ideas are interesting to me, and religions are a place where ideas have been very subtly embodied for thousands of years. All literature started as sacred literature.

I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.

Captain Ahab drowned, he reminded himself; it was the trimmer, Ishmael, who survived.

Very often in free speech cases you find yourself defending material that you personally detest, because of course it's no trick to defend the free speech of people you either agree with or who don't particularly upset you. It's when people really upset you that you discover if you believe in free speech or not.