When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that's happened that day just melts away.
I would love to be a dad. For the longest time, I've wanted kids, but you have to have the right setup, right?
Dad entered the Second World War like any other man, trying to do the right thing.
And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.
One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
I've always wanted to design a home collection line because growing up, I was obsessed with reorganizing my room.
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
Neoliberalism considers the discourse of equality, justice, and democracy quaint, if not dangerous and must be either trivialized, turned into its Orwellian opposite, or eviscerated from public life.
A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.
One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.
It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
Every day Catholics prove that you can be a good Catholic and a good Democrat and have a different position from the Church on abortion.
Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort of root in the abstract.
Somehow it's O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, 'I never learned to read,' they'd say I was an illiterate dolt.
These days, right now, these are the good old days. I've always approached it that way. That's why I'm still working. I'm not the guy who is ready to sit by the pool.
Knowledge should be a public good, and I want my ideas to have as much exposure as possible.
Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better. But there comes a point, as an actor, when you do know better, and that is when the fear starts.
Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.
