If, as a Spaniard, I am so often offended by the stereotypes that abound regarding my country, how can I accept and repeat the ones that fall even more heavily upon Israel?

I put on such a good show, the story is outrageous, and people don't want to hear that I'm basically a reasonable human being. As long as it continues to get me print, I'll continue to perform in an...

'Aquarian Conspiracy' is the term I have coined for the network of people working for social transformation based on personal inner change. Such a notion is not at all alien to the American milieu.

Most countries are static, and they need to just keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything...

Joan organizes our social life, and on weekends I follow her around.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

We are not passing values on to our children. We are not sitting down at the dinner table talking about the tiny things that add up to caring human beings.

My aunts still try to fatten me up.

I don't remember writing anything until I wrote my college application.

The whole purpose of books is that we read them, and if you find you can't, it might not be your inadequacy that's to blame. 'Good' books can be pretty awful sometimes.

'Simplifying' the tax code is a priority mainly for people who make enough money to want to avoid paying taxes, and who make their money by means unorthodox enough to make avoiding taxes possible and...

It has always been a goal of mine to climb Kilimanjaro, so that's definitely happening, and I may write a memoir about it. When I was 25, I tried to trek to Everest Base Camp, but I got sick and ended...

When a book is going well, it tells you where to go.

Christopher Hitchens, the late essayist and sot, was a man who purposefully cultivated a lot of friends of a certain type - rich, self-important, generally dim-witted and hence easy for a well-spoken...

Journalism is a Darwinian process.

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).

Women are not different creatures from men. They don't need to be extra careful around us. They just need to treat us with the same basic respect and dignity that they show to other men.

I dressed as the Riddler once, when I was little too heavy to do. I would wear tights. My brother was in a hair metal band, and he had Riddler tights made. My brother's a geek, but he was in a heavy...

I guess I cringe when the discussion leads to, rather than books and sentences and characters and the stuff that writers are supposed to be concerned with, how to have an online presence and how many...

I really learned that, when I got into television, I really learned the power, how deeply it affects people to see themselves on television, to see something that they can relate to, that they feel is...

One of the things that's difficult for people to understand is when you join the military, you don't sign up as an endorsement of any particular policy of the moment.

Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.

I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture.

I think having imaginary friends is an amazing coping mechanism. It's pretty wonderful, and it makes a lot of sense to me.

Every vampire fiction reinvents vampires to its own needs. You take what you want.

You go from these high hopes when you're writing to just a desperate want of not making a complete fool of yourself by the end of it.

Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.

I think because of their terrible past, particularly this century, the Chinese have come to accept cruelty more than many other people, which is something I feel very unhappy about.

My friends joke that I raised the Titanic and never left the Rockies.