Pastoral Resources

It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.

If the word gets out, if the perception exists that by speaking to a CBS journalist you are, therefore, inevitably, immediately speaking to the police, I don't think there's any doubt but that people won't talk. And, therefore, the public won't learn.

When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.

Acting is the work of two people-it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.

There's nothing more human than two people making love.

People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries.

When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world.

No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.

I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists.

Traveling around I don't think people are that horrible, I think they just don't know.

I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it.

Yeah, I mean, I put work out there for people to use and I'm grateful when you use it.

I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material.

I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever.

Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.

What I enjoy most is travelling to different places and meeting new people. For me, it's all about life experiences, and I'm very grateful that acting allows me so many interesting and fulfilling ones.

The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.