a spontaneous judgement

could be said for observation Intuitions are not wholly reliable, but also in the fact that we know so little about them

intuition is an expression of tacit knowledge.

intuition’s primary role is to understand or apprehend the salient features of a case – in the form of a judgement – and a secondary (indirect) role as evidence for or against philosophical theories.

a revival of the use of intuitions was prompted by Chomsky’s linguistics

aim to use intuitions as evidence

Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression.

Clutter is evidence of excess.

I'm not a biographer, I'm a novelist.

I live by letting things happen.

I am not a rabble rouser.

To change the world one has to ignore its residents.

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Along with a livable wage, many parents are desperate for quality affordable child care.

Look at somebody like Margaret Sanger, who was married young and had kids but then left her husband and wound up living a kind of single life as she got into the founding of what would become Planned Parenthood.

Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed hatred and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed.

The sabbath is a time where we put aside all secular work and focus entirely on Jesus and on things holy.

Mel will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number.

On Monday mornings, I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.

A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

I grew up watching Indian movies as a kid in Russia. I am quite familiar with Bollywood.

You don't change your style by changing your bag. You change it with your clothes.

I'm never going to say, 'Well, I'm never going to do comedy again.' I love comedies, and it's what people know me for, so I love doing it... I don't really think about it in terms of 'Well, I should do this because it's comedy or drama.'

Whenever I release a record, it's my record. It's not a selfish thought. I may work all year 'round for other people. So, finally, when I come out with my own album, it should be me with the creative help of other musicians.

You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for.

I don't watch television.

The worst words I could ever hear as a bass player was, 'Can you play the root notes?'

I think I'd be more relaxed as an older mum, although fundamentally life with a baby is pretty much the same whatever age you are. It's nappies, crying, feeding.

Just because something didn't work out your way, or somebody disappointed you, that does not change who you are.