I do understand people when they say that you destroy the magic of childhood if you encourage too much skeptical questioning.
When the house is blown up, there’s nothing to shut or open.
Sacrilege is acceptable only as a game.
Hunger justifies the middle classes.
The object is that which is objected against me.
Thought involves a little charlatanism.
Here we are in the century of information, that is to say the unformed. Every kind of literature will be journalistic, with a science for ballast.
In [Ronald] Reagan's view, the American Founders had anchored their experiment in Judeo-Christian beliefs; the Bolsheviks deliberately established an antithetical model. Those founders of communism divorced their "faith" from God.
I'm so touched that complete strangers will send me a script asking me to be in their film. That still amazes me - and sometimes for a lot of money too.
The problem with the Internet startup craze isn't that too many people are starting companies; it's that too many people aren't sticking with it. That's somewhat understandable, because there are many moments that are filled with despair and agony, when you have to fire people and cancel things and deal with very difficult situations. That's when you find out who you are and what your values are.
O God, how lovely still is life!