An identity based in the one-way love of God does not take into account public opinion or, thankfully, even personal opinion.
The problem of evil... Why does God permit it? Or, if God is omnipotent, in which case permission and creation are the same, why did God create it?
I prefer theater and film. I did a little television, and obviously I'm not knocking it. It can be great, and it does pay the bills. But it's a little bit more disjointed.
What Tim does is, he calls me and sends me the script. And then he sends me a drawing, an illustration of his image of me as the character. It's so great.
Health care does not worry me a great deal. I've been impressed by some wonderful old people.
I've long been a fan of Chiwetel Ejiofor. I think he's a great actor. He's my kind of guy. He does what I aspire to do.
The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.
A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy.
Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios.
The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way.
A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.
I discovered surfing, which I absolutely fell in love with. That feels good and kind of keeps your body aligned, so does the salt water.
What good does it do to be afraid? It doesn't help anything. You better try and figure out what's happening and correct it.
If the code does indeed have some logical foundation then it is legitimate to consider all the evidence, both good and bad, in any attempt to deduce it.
There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul Simon, and there are also good writers, but that doesn't dominate the charts.
I think that good storytelling of any kind does promote a humility in that it encourages you to see the world the way that other people see it.
I'm good at what I do, but I wouldn't be so bold and arrogant as to say something disrespectful about, say, Eminem. He's talented and he's good at what he does.
I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.
True love does not only encompass the things that make you feel good, it also holds you to a standard of accountability.
It was just us lampooning our own peer group, saying, well hey, where did this stuff come from? And where does British guys get to be so good at it suddenly?
It takes a very strong brain to resist the absolutes, the myths that the media and the politicians peddle - the idea that if you are too kind, where does it all end? That not to help someone is somehow a good idea.
