I rarely see one of the 'summer blockbuster' movies. I'd like to see a stronger focus on smaller, smarter movies.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

Isaac Asimov

...You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.

Mitch Albom

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?

Bill Watterson

I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design.

William Landay

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Eleanor Roosevelt

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder

Aldous Huxley

The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible.

James Baldwin

There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitching of a mean merrymaker.

Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol

For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.

Olof Palme

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.

Benjamin Franklin

There were a couple of occasions in India when I was twenty that felt to me like going out with a thimble in your hand, hoping to catch a drop of rain, and having the ocean land on your head. These experiences convinced me that there is an absolute love that pervades everything.

David James Duncan

You can't possibly fathom the ins and outs of a prepubescent beauty treatment until you've felt the strange but exhilarating tingle of a cottage-cheese-and-Pop-Rocks facial.

Sloane Crosley