I'm interested in what bonds people together. You know, what brings us together in good ways? And there's not a lot known about that.

We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist.

If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other people's, then that must feel pretty good.

We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the kind of joy that can take over a crowd of people or a group of people, in festivity, in ecstatic ritual of some kind, in celebration.

Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.

I haven't read enough of the Bible. You know, I'm saving the Bible for if I ever get imprisoned, and the only reading material was the Bible.