You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.

I remember when I was a freshman in college, I was still somewhat bothered by... worried... about religion. I remember going to this professor of philosophy and telling him that I had lost my faith.

I won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know... but I'm not averse to the idea of some intelligence or some organizing force that set up the initial conditions of the universe in such a way that ultimately generated stars, planets and life.

I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men.

I'm not sure I had a political career for the future anyway. I'm not sure that politics was what I wanted to spend my life doing.

Seven months after Hurricane Sandy, New Jersey residents and business are continuing the hard work of recovery.

I grew up on my dad's sets, but I was never star-struck or desperate to be famous. I grew up being a worker. It took me a long time to realise that my work ended up being seen by people. As far as I was concerned, I was just in the family business.

An artist has to know who she is and to be consistent in building her career.