For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.
More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion.
By the way, I'm not a vegetarian. I have a lot of respect for people who are vegetarian for religious or ethical reasons.
The actors I respect are the ones who see it as a career and manage to live reasonably normal lives, like Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.
But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates.
If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success.
For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.
I'd like people to be educated on the voting machines, making sure that our democracy isn't being hijacked by computer technology. There's no reason there can't be a paper trail on those machines.
More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding.
I'd love to do a court-room drama. I loved 'Ally McBeal.' That was one of the main reasons I went to law school.
Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.
One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent the audience's responsibility.
I love the irony of movies. I really do. For whatever reason, I'm incredibly intrigued by the irony of reality in a motion picture.
The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want to have my music with me.'
I tend to not listen to my own music when I'm not working on it. No real reason other than it's nice to get away from it.
Many of us are alarmed at the skyrocketing cost of medical care, including patients, who are the consumers. However, medical malpractice is not the reason for these increasing costs.
I have worries and fears just like everybody else. But I have every reason to wake up each morning and be very happy.
I'm singing these songs to inspire you, to keep you going, to lift you up and give you a reason to get up in the morning.
