I've become a much more serious young insect.

Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.

A poll earlier this year showed that 42 per cent of Americans believe we're in the End Times.

I've become a much more serious young insect.

The world is infinitely more complex than it appeared to me 15 years ago.

I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person.

You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.

Absolute faith can blind you to the consequences of the actions you allow. It can tell you it's okay to drop bombs on another country, or that it's okay to hate a group of people such as homosexuals.

I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.

If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it.

You're never guaranteed about next year. People ask what you think of next season, you have to seize the opportunities when they're in front of you.

My whole story is just about me having a second chance.

No one escapes being haunted by something that absolutely terrifies them to the core, but very few feel it's okay to admit what it is that haunts us.

I've always said in the press, I can fall in love with a man. I can fall in love with a woman. And I've always said that I have no shame in that.

The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them.

Righteousness and faith certainly are instrumental in moving mountains - if moving mountains accomplishes God's purposes and is in accordance with His will.

In this modern world it is easy to be complex but difficult to be simple. At least try to keep your mind simple.

I'm not looking ahead joyfully to the rest of my life or the future of the human race. I've always written about man as an animal species among other animals, competing for limited resources. Our population is exploding. Our environment is dying. Science has debunked God.

I broke two knuckles in my right hand when I gave Jean-Claude Van Damme an attitude adjustment. I got nothing except a medical bill.

Atheism is a moral position - a rather rigid one, if you've ever read the opinions of its highest-profile espousers, Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins.

Writing blurbs for books means you have to read the book, and it cuts into the business of bookselling. So every time I get a blurb from a bookseller, I try to write a thank you note.

The worst mistake of a woman is to go to the kitchen because then she never gets out of there.

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

In 'Leverage,' I don't really play an insurance investigator but a man who used to be an insurance investigator.

Virtually all modern forms of extremism accuse liberal Western democratic systems of being hypocritical and, ultimately, weak.

We have a lot of societal problems that we have to fix in the 1990s.

Normally, if someone's legacy will outlast their life, it's apparent when they die. On the day when Alexander the Great, or Caesar Augustus, or Napoleon, or Socrates, or Muhammad died, their reputations were immense. When Jesus died, his tiny, failed movement appeared clearly at an end.

The authentic experience, where is that? Living the moment. That is something that we're losing.

There's a temptation not to vote at all as a protest, but it's definitely not a protest. In fact, all it does is keep the people in power in power, and I don't think they should be.

Since that time up until the present time, there have been progress, and changes all through the time. The changes have not come by themselves; these changes have come from the doings of everyone in the country.

You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation.

The stories a society tells about itself are a measure of how it values itself, the ideals of democracy, and its future.

I fill my life with a lot of 'busyness' in between jobs. Then I work very hard. Some of it is quite unhealthy. It's compulsive. I don't know what to do about it. I'm a little old to change.

A lot of money with the wrong career is not going to make you happy. If you have money without happiness, it doesn't mean anything. It's all about happiness.