Because Quotes

We can't equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs.

We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.

I made the film in spite of Harvey, not because of Harvey.

But I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older.

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.

My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something.

Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about.

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

I feel very lucky because of my parents and then my education, the opportunities that I've had, so I would like to continue working to improve lives for others.

The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

When I first started out, I was really attracted to having my own sense of style because I started swing dancing, lindy hop, and jitterbug.

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring.

A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. They're in search of something worse than that. Money, yeah. I think the media's the kind of a thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.

When I was 5, some financial things happened, and I moved seven times in a year. We moved from apartment to apartment, sometimes living with friends. My mom would always say, 'Don't get comfortable, because we may not be here long.'

For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I'm human and I'm normal - well, semi-normal.

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.

Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.

I feel so lucky to have both a son and a daughter, because there's a different relationship with each of them.

A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.

Because I know about the Holy Land, I've taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and - but you can't bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.

A lot of very beautiful women can be a pain because all they're thinking about is how they look.

People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.