“Politics is so personal, vicious and immediate, how are you going to get anything done? Even the local politics where I live have gotten so ugly.”

You know what music is? God’s little reminder that there’s something else besides us in this universe; harmonic connection between all living beings, every where, even the stars.

I love doing live action movies, but there’s a great job in doing animation, especially one with music.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, ‘Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.’ She’s got a baseball bat and yelling, You want a piece of me?

The human spirit is more powerful than any drug – and that is what needs to be nourished: with work, play, friendship, family. These are the things that matter.

Being a functioning alcoholic is kind of like being a paraplegic lap dancer: You can do it, just not as well as the others, really.

I’m sorry, if you were right, I’d agree with you.

Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.

Sometimes you got to specifically go out of your way to get into trouble. It’s called fun.

When I was growing up they used to say, “Robin, drugs can kill you.” Now that I’m 58 my doctor’s telling me, “Robin, you need drugs to live.” I realize now that my doctor is also my dealer.

My battles with addiction definitely shaped how I am now. They really made me deeply appreciate human contact. And the value of friends and family, how precious that is.

To live would be an awfully big adventure.

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they’ve got nothing to lose.

There’s a time for daring and there’s a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for.

We used to be hunter-gatherers, now we’re shopper-borrowers.

If men would only take the chances of doing right because it is right, instead of the immediate certainty of the advantage of doing wrong, how much happier would their lives be.

And in a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.

Accessible?pragmatic even?Russell’s proposals speak to goals on the immediate horizon and underscore the role that intelligent design can play now in America.

Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.

And what is the primary datum? It’s the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.

Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.

My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.

If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’