Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.

There is something in the American project, something in simple American oratory, something in the hope and idealism of this frustrating and contradictory nation that still makes my spirits soar and my heart leap with optimism and belief. If only they understood how to make a cup of tea.

Just as it is the love of money that is the root of all evil, it is the belief in shamefulness that is the root of all misery.

Philosophy is an odd thing... There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don't offer ethical codes and standards by which to live your life.

Hell, I am young. I am free. My teeth are clean. The sun shines. To hell with everything else

Perhaps the greatest definition I think of character and quality is people who when they're truly great rather than making you feel that tall they make you feel that tall, that they're greatness as it were improves you.

Homosexuals are not interested in making other people homosexuals. Homophobes are interested in making other people homophobes.