"Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want."

"The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity."

"In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead."

"Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world."

"My mother put me on birth control as soon as I told her I wanted to go on it. I was 16. I was very young."

"The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future."

"When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design."

"When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a real cake. I'd had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good French cake doesn't have anything like that in it - it's all egg power."