I think I am really irreverent and I pretty much just talk to and about men the way men talk to and about women.

Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women I think men revere older women.

I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event and the only way to understand it was to write about it.

In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.

I long for the days when athletes were revered. I want to see the romance return to sports to see people enjoy the game purely for the game and the players.

Our modern society - especially in the West and especially now - reveres youth.

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence not mastery.

Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great none so much needed now.

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.