"I think on the things - the issues that Pope Francis cares about - not just remaking the Church and in just sort of a more compassionate visage, but really on trying to move real policy."

“As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.”

“A few people have come back to me and said, "Thanks for giving me nightmares for the last few nights!" I say to them, "Well, now you know what I've been going through for the last three years!"”

“But if you must be clever, then be clever. Be brave. Sleep with fists closed and shoot straight.”

“I think the shocking thing to discover is the owls are not stupid and very feral, very hard to train.”

Source : Interview with Steven Horn, www.ign.com. February 18, 2004.

“A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.”

Source : Alexander Hamilton, John Church Hamilton (1850). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Miscellanies, 1774-1789: A full vindication; The farmer refuted; Quebec bill; Resolutions in Congress; Letters from Phocion; New-York Legislature, etc”, p.84

“The present urgency is to begin thinking within the context of the whole planet, the integral earth community with all its human and other-than-human components.”

“I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios.”

“Being a Scotsman, I am naturally opposed to water in its undiluted state.”