There is no reason for anyone in this country, anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use a handgun... and the only way to do that is to change the Constitution.

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

Right reason is stronger than force.

I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.

I don't know why, it's the same reason why you like some music and you don't like others. There's something about it that you like. Ultimately I don't find it's in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it's fundamentally emotional.

People do more important jobs than acting in film that should be recognised, but for some reason it's big money, so people are elevated in status. If I was a bus driver, I'm sure you wouldn't be interviewing me.

Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.

As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.