"I don't have to have a political office. I do it because I think it's public service. And if there was a position I thought I could truly render public service, I would consider it. But I don't know what that would be right now."

"I’m working on a screenplay of Fahrenheit 451 that will star Mel Gibson. It will be better than the original because they left a lot of things out of the first film. … It works even better because we …"

"Imagine that each of these layers of existence are like patterns. They're patterns within patterns within patterns within patterns, and there's a way of making all that harmonious. That's what music m…"

"Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!"

"There are only two kinds of arguments for euthanasia. The first is based on owning your life. Already in the last century, some philosophers and novelists began to talk of suicide as the ultimate act …"