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“Questioning our own motives, and our own process, is critical to a skeptical and scientific outlook. We must realize that the default mode of human psychology is to grab onto comforting beliefs for purely emotional reasons, and then justify those beliefs to ourselves with post-hoc rationalizations.”
Source : "Skeptics' Guide to the Universe" Podcast #285, www.sgutranscripts.org. December 29, 2010. 
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“If I have a right to a job, education, health care or a house, then I must be able to specify the person or persons who owe me any or all of these things.”
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“I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.”
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“It's not that we use technology, we live technology.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“Race and sexual preferences are two different things. One is a behavior-related and preference-related and one is something inherently - skin color, something obvious, that kind of stuff.”
Source : "GOP Rep. Lankford Explains Why It Should Be Legal To Fire Someone For Being Gay: ‘It’s A Choice Issue’". thinkprogress.org. May 14, 2012.
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“Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in peoples minds with emotion.”
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“I think creative people need to do a bit of, you know, tuning into every radio station - you just do, otherwise you don't know much about other people. You kind of have to learn a bit about yourself so you can work out how we all behave and why we do the things we do.”
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“To a mind like mine, restless, inquisitive, and observant of everything that was passing, it is easy to suppose that religion was the subject to which it would be directed; and, although this subject principally occupied my thoughts, there was nothing that I saw or heard of to which my attention was not directed.”
Source : Nat Turner (2011). “The Confessions of Nat Turner, the Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Virginia”, p.18, Univ of North Carolina Press
