Drama is about conflict, and it's about putting obstacles in the path of people you who care about.
Passions are generally roused from great conflict.
I have spiritual beliefs that I could literally go out and make an entire comedy routine about, and tour as some sort of spiritual guru, but it kind of goes against that [as] I actually believe the things, so I'm always kind of caught in the middle.
Drama starts where logic ends.
Throughout history, most of the wrongs of the world have resulted from people absolutely sure they were in the right.
But we have a war of ideals and ideas, and that is to sell democracy.
Tolerance to my mind has been greatly overrated . . . . I take as much pleasure in detesting the good brothers and sisters of the [Anti-Saloon] League as they have in hating me.
I do not know what got me interested in technology. What was very clear to me very early on was that I was not interested in religion and that naturally increased my curiosity about science and technology, and I fundamentally believe the two are conflicting.
The world is rapidly being divided into two camps, the comradeship of anti-Christ and the brotherhood of Christ. The lines between these two are being drawn. How long the battle will be we know not whether swords will have to be unsheathed we know not whether blood will have to be shed we know not whether it will be an armed conflict we know not. But in a conflict between truth and darkness, truth cannot lose.
I think there should be holy war against yoga classes.
I think that internal conflict works very well, because, after all, all the best drama is fuelled by conflict.
Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the fire.
A true Christian is one who has not only peace of conscience, but war within. He may be known by his warfare as well as by his peace.
There can be no truce between science and religion.
At Cornell, my acting teacher said you cannot be religious and be an artist. I sort of got it, because faith is a comfort and art comes from a lot of places, in a lot of people, from the dark chasm.
