"There's a possible qualification I can make here about a non-pantheist god that is in some way tenable, and that is the idea of a god that has in some way discharged the universe from its own substance (I associate this with the word 'tzimtzum'), possibly even by a form of suicide - a suicide that might have been the Big Bang."

“The visible world only becomes the real world by the operation of thought”

“Women see through each other, but they rarely look into themselves.”

Source : Theodor Reik (1970). “Of Love and Lust: On the Psychoanalysis of Romantic and Sexual Emotions”

“I don't have hate in my heart. I don't hate any person, place or thing...but I hate the Yankees.”

“Truly what the Emmys are about are the machine behind them, and Oscars are the same way, where if you have a big enough machine behind you, you get nominated, because truly how many of the best performances actually win...not many.”

Source : IGN Interview, www.ign.com. July 11, 2006.

“Oddly, the most freeing thing we can ever do is to abdicate the throne of our own miniature kingdoms.”

“I tend to watch a lot of movies at home. It's nice to be close to the refrigerator with my pyjamas on and just relax.”

“Slavery and freedom cannot exist together.”

“No state will be well administered unless the middle class holds sway.”