Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.
I believe in individual rights so much that I don't like any sort of 'what's good for the cause'-type questions.
Film work can be tedious and sort of all over the place, especially when you have a family and you're going off and doing things somewhere else.
The reflection of the flame in the glass seems to be touching the hand. And you feel the helpless fear of these dismembered parts. This sort of thing can hardly be visualized at the script stage.
Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear.
I haven't any sort of plans for the future but I reckon things will work out in some manner.
The children who are 'our future' will inherit a world created not just by parental devotion but by the sort of zealous, focused endeavors that can preclude good parenting.
I would love to do a comedy, but comedy probably in the sense of a dark comedy like 'Californication,' that sort of thing. Yeah, sure, I think I'm funny.
Yeah, there were a few years in the early nineties where I really began to hate what was valued as funny and just sort of what was valued in stand-up, period.
Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.
The fundamental proposition of the apriorist theory is that knowledge is made up of two sorts of elements, which cannot be reduced into one another, and which are like two distinct layers superimposed one upon the other.
The truth is that anyone, almost anyone, who receives the Nobel Prize has some indirect knowledge of one sort or another that they may be a candidate.
I sort of lived half my life in California, half in England, so I am, I suppose, a little bit American.
I think that finding a way into somebody's life that's sort of off from a side angle can tell you more about that person than a greatest hits approach.
The extreme side of my personality, which I chose to sort of display, was snowballing and getting a life of its own. It was like looking in a mirror and not recognising myself.
Writing music is sort of my hobby, but it's been falling off more and more. Doing comic books takes up my entire life.
By laughing at me, the audience really laughs at themselves, and realizing they have done this gives them sort of a spiritual second wind for going back into the battles of life.
I've always been sort of confused by the trajectory my life has taken. I was supposed to be on an assembly line building Buicks.
When I discovered that I could tune into American radio stations after dark, this was the hippest thing to me. It sort of saved my life.
An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
I don't believe the fertilised egg can be equated with the sort of human life that you and I represent, or our children represent.
