The Internet is a collective hallucination: one of the best humanity has ever generated.

I like ideas. I find them more exciting than human behavior for the most part.

I guess you could say that no matter what the characters are enduring, I try to make them retain their humanity. Their self-absorbed, grouchy, selfish, aggravating humanity.

I prefer to be a good human being rather than a good character on screen.

I have worked positively and successfully with Senator Sessions on issues like adoption and human trafficking.

The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.

What I like in novels that I read and enjoy is interplay of theme: the mystery of how we seem to be so separate as human beings.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

Human beings are gross.

If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice.

I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.

What Darwinian theory shows us is that all human races are extremely close to each other. None of them is in any sense ancestral to any other; none of them is more primitive than any other. We are all modern races of exactly equal status, evolutionarily speaking.

'Narcos' was a very strong experience, not only artistically and politically, but as a human being.

I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.

Whereas HIV only in recent decades became infectious for humans, high risk papillomavirus types have in all likelihood been with us for millions of years, accompanying the human race since the early days of our evolution.

Great conversations always spark in a genuine interest to recognize and know the other person's story and, therefore, recognizing and understanding and celebrating their humanity.

Ghettos and barrios and abusive homes and trauma wards may produce scarred souls; they can cripple more human spirits than they strengthen.

For science, the end of the evolution struggle is simply represented by 'survival.' As for the means to that end, apparently anything goes. Darwinism leaves humanity without a moral compass.

I'm perpetually interested by living in places as an artist confronting challenges I've never confronted before and approaching them with as much craft and humanity as I can.

We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.