The ordinary can be like medicine.

If you care about something enough, it’s going to make you cry. But you have to use it. Use your tears. Use your pain. Use your fear. Get mad. Arnold, get mad.

Corliss wondered what happens to a book that sits unread on a library shelf for thirty years. Can a book rightfully be called a book if it never gets read? If a tree falls in a forest and gets pulped to make paper for a book that never gets read, but there's nobody there to read it, does it make a sound?

I'm not a pacifist by any measure, but I'm also fully aware that the reasons I might go to war could be very dubious.

In order to know somebody through their words, I mean, it has to be an, it has to be a letter, you know? It has to be a long e-mail. It has to be a five-page hand-written letter, you know, it has to be overwhelming and messy and sloppy as humans are.

Religious fundamentalists are unaware that freedom of religion necessarily brings with it the freedom to mock religion.

Most of my heroes are just decent people. Decency is rare and underrated.