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Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

Want to be a well-paid bioethicist, with one, two, or even three university appointments? Just get yourself a two-piece navy polyester suit and follow these three simple rules: (1) Never name names. (2) Screw principles; just follow procedures. (3) Bury the money.

People will have their guesses and opinions on my character, but anyone that's actually sat down and talked to me knows that I don't have any character issues, any off-the-field issues.

You know, so many people say TV makes you stupid. But it had the complete opposite effect on me. It kept me from having a really bad Southern accent.

We remain essentially a nation under siege.

However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.

Every situation can be substantially improved; even the sky is not the limit.

I do believe it is true that the people of India regard the prime minister as the most important political leader.

The split between religion and science is relatively new. Isaac Newton, who first worked out the laws by which gravity held the planets and even the stars in their traces, was sufficiently impressed by the scale and regularity of the universe to ascribe it all to God.

We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?

I wrote the first draft of 'Tigerman' while my wife was pregnant - needless to say, I was relaxed and casual about her well-being during this tender time - and the novel clearly has its center in that panicked parental desperation that accompanies a first child and in the admittedly comedic extremes to which it drives us.

My nan and granddad are from Cork.

So many people are campaigning, fighting, and even dying to make a statement in the name of humanity. These people have no voice that can be heard by many. I wish more celebrities would take the initiative to be that voice.

Comedy is only funny when there's real pain.

I didn't say I wouldn't go into ghetto areas. I've been in many of them and to some extent I would say this; if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

All women are strong, and we don't need to write stronger female roles; what we need to start writing is real women that have emotions and have real-life thoughts.

University characters are prime for parody, you know - the self-entitled rich kids to the self-important protestors to the international students.

I didn't go to school a full year until I was 11 or 12, so I lived in books. I really was an observer of life.

Hatred is opposite to God, opposite to spirituality. Any form of hatred in the name of country, color, religion, prophet or cult are the darkest ignorance of human consciousness.